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Extremity Trauma and Amputation Center of Excellence hosts monthly education series for providers, with next one on April 24, 2024.
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The Military Health System is an interconnected network of service members whose mission is to support the lives and families of those who support our country. Everyday in the MHS advancements are made in the lab, in the field, and here at home. These are just a few articles highlighting those accomplishments that don't always make it to the front page of local papers.
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The Armed Forces Health Surveillance Division continues to evolve military health surveillance in order to detect new and emerging hazards, track rates and trends of illnesses and injuries of concern. Their efforts support our service members operating in austere conditions, like the Marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit as they participate in Exercise Cobra Gold 2020 in Thailand (Photo by: Marine Lance Cpl. Colton Garrett, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit).
Proper concussion recovery protocols are critical to returning service members and trainees and students such as these U.S. Military Academy cadets and U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen during the annual Army Navy football game (Photo by: Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Alexander Kubitza, Office of the Secretary of the Navy).
A newly revised suite of tools and resources for military health care providers will help improve the treatment of service members with concussions, and ensure their safe return to full duty.
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Dear Doc: I decided to take advantage of the beautiful weather last weekend and went out hiking with a few friends. As we were headed up a pretty steep incline, I fell and hit my head on a rock. It hurt pretty badly at the time, but being the “warrior” that I am, I brushed it off and we finished the hike. I haven’t been to a doctor yet, but now I'm having pretty painful headaches, and I’ve also been getting dizzy and nauseous. Did I have a concussion and, if so, what should I do next? — Hit Head Hiking
Thirty years improvements in data collection, automation, and transmission have allowed for the creation of robust longitudinal health surveillance records on military populations.
Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP)’s Rapid Rural Response Team (RRRT) deployed to Chinle Comprehensive Care Facility in Albuquerque, New Mexico to help the Navajo Nation in the fight against the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) from Dec. 16, 2020 to March 12, 2021. From left to right: Navy officers – Navy Surgeon General Rear Adm. Bruce Gillingham, Lt.j.g. Maria Ramirez, Lt.j.g. Abigail Waller, Lt. Amanda Brock, Lt.j.g. Destanie Hoppe, Lt.j.g. Dakota Patterson, Force Master Chief Michael Roberts (Photo by: Navy Lt. Amanda Brock, taken Feb. 5, Tuba City Regional Medical Center).
Study team members from Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune and the Hearing Center of Excellence conduct pre-exposure auditory testing on Marines during an Integrated Training Exercise at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California in January 2020. The CHASMPAS study is working to better understand noise-induced hearing loss by collecting audiometric data before and after noise exposure (Photo by: Quintin Hecht).
An RRRT is a small team comprised of specialized individuals that can be deployed to rural locations of the country.
Blast injury research helps to fill knowledge gaps about brain injury.
Army Maj. Catherine Celeski, an Army Reserve critical care nurse from San Antonio, Texas, mobilized in mid-December 2020 with Army Reserve Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force 328-1 to assist the Yuma Regional Medical Center in Yuma, Arizona. Urban Augmentation Medical Task Forces are examples of U.S. Northern Command’s commitment, through U.S. Army North, to providing flexible Department of Defense support for the whole-of-government COVID-19 response.
Celeski brought experience in COVID-19 care from her civilian position as a registered nurse with the Veterans Affairs medical system in San Antonio.
Navy Hospitalman Gabriel Cabral, assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego, from Maryland, administers first-round of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine sailors and select Department of Defense support staff onboard Naval Air Facility EL Centro, California on March 4, 2021 (Photo by: Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Drew Verbis, Navy Operational Support Center - Phoenix).
Soldiers from 1st/120th Field Artillery, Wisconsin National Guard, prepare to fire a M-777 Howitzer during Winter Strike 21 at Camp Grayling Maneuver Center, Michigan in Jan. 2021. Soon the Army should have a field-deployable means to detect and evaluate soldiers for TBI (Photo by: Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Dan Heaton).
Patient Safety Awareness Week 2021 aims to highlight the role of technology in patient safety (Courtesy of the DOD’s Patient Safety Awareness Program for Medical Affairs).
Helping to nurse the COVID-19 vaccine forward…Lt. Andrea Mauter, Navy Nurse Corps officer, was recently on weekend duty as on-site leader overseeing several hundred 75-year and older beneficiaries being administered their initial dose of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Bremerton (Photo by: Doug Stutz, NHB/NMRTC Bremerton)
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