Medical rescue of naval combat: challenges and future

There has been no large-scale naval combat in the last 30 years. With the rapid development of battleships, weapons manufacturing and electronic technology, naval combat will present some new characteristics. Additionally, naval combat is facing unprecedented challenges. In this paper, we discuss th...

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Main Authors: Jin, Hai, Hou, Li-Jun, Fu, Xiao-Bing
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: BioMed Central 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4549092/
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spelling pubmed-45490922015-08-26 Medical rescue of naval combat: challenges and future Jin, Hai Hou, Li-Jun Fu, Xiao-Bing Perspective There has been no large-scale naval combat in the last 30 years. With the rapid development of battleships, weapons manufacturing and electronic technology, naval combat will present some new characteristics. Additionally, naval combat is facing unprecedented challenges. In this paper, we discuss the topic of medical rescue at sea: what challenges we face and what we could do. The contents discussed in this paper contain battlefield self-aid buddy care, clinical skills, organized health services, medical training and future medical research programs. We also discuss the characteristics of modern naval combat, medical rescue challenges, medical treatment highlights and future developments of medical rescue at sea. BioMed Central 2015-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC4549092/ /pubmed/26309738 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40779-015-0048-z Text en © Jin et al. 2015 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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author Jin, Hai
Hou, Li-Jun
Fu, Xiao-Bing
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Hou, Li-Jun
Fu, Xiao-Bing
Medical rescue of naval combat: challenges and future
author_facet Jin, Hai
Hou, Li-Jun
Fu, Xiao-Bing
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title Medical rescue of naval combat: challenges and future
title_short Medical rescue of naval combat: challenges and future
title_full Medical rescue of naval combat: challenges and future
title_fullStr Medical rescue of naval combat: challenges and future
title_full_unstemmed Medical rescue of naval combat: challenges and future
title_sort medical rescue of naval combat: challenges and future
description There has been no large-scale naval combat in the last 30 years. With the rapid development of battleships, weapons manufacturing and electronic technology, naval combat will present some new characteristics. Additionally, naval combat is facing unprecedented challenges. In this paper, we discuss the topic of medical rescue at sea: what challenges we face and what we could do. The contents discussed in this paper contain battlefield self-aid buddy care, clinical skills, organized health services, medical training and future medical research programs. We also discuss the characteristics of modern naval combat, medical rescue challenges, medical treatment highlights and future developments of medical rescue at sea.
publisher BioMed Central
publishDate 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4549092/
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