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Prolonged field care as a subspecialty relies on the transmission and adaptation of guidelines between civilian and military organisations. This can take the form of adapting civilian clinical practices to a military setting, [ 5 ] undertaking civilian research to inform military practices [ 8 ] or adapting military training for a civilian ...
Evidence-Based Nursing is a peer-reviewed healthcare journal covering the field of evidence-based nursing. It is published quarterly by the BMJ Publishing Group and RCN Publishing. It is abstracted and indexed by Index Medicus , Scopus and Excerpta Medica/EMBASE. The journal performs systematically searches of nursing and medical journals.
Pulmonary aspiration is the entry of solid or liquid material such as pharyngeal secretions, food, drink, or stomach contents from the oropharynx or gastrointestinal tract, into the trachea and lungs. [1] When pulmonary aspiration occurs during eating and drinking, the aspirated material is often colloquially referred to as "going down the ...
The Emergency Medicine Journal is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal that is published by the BMJ Group on behalf of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine of which it is an official journal [1] It is also an official journal of the British Association for Immediate Care and the Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
The ingestion and aspiration of foreign objects pose a common and dangerous problem in young children. It remains one of the leading cause of death in children under the age of 5. [ 20 ] Common food items (baby carrots, peanuts, etc.) and household objects (coins, metals, etc.) may lodge in various levels of the airway tract and cause ...
Plates vi & vii of the Edwin Smith Papyrus (around the 17th century BC), among the earliest medical guidelines. A medical guideline (also called a clinical guideline, standard treatment guideline, or clinical practice guideline) is a document with the aim of guiding decisions and criteria regarding diagnosis, management, and treatment in specific areas of healthcare.
BMJ Best Practice is an online decision-support tool made for clinical decision making support. It was created in 2009 by BMJ. [1] Development
Aspiration pneumonia most often develops due to micro-aspiration of saliva, or bacteria carried on food and liquids, in combination with impaired host immune function. [30] Chronic inflammation of the lungs is a key feature in aspiration pneumonia in elderly nursing home residents and presents as a sporadic fever (one day per week for several ...