BUILDING TRAUMA CAPABILITY: USING GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS TO CONSIDER MILITARY TREATMENT FACILITIES FOR TRAUMA CENTER DEVELOPMENT

Building trauma capability: using geospatial analysis to consider military treatment facilities for trauma center development

Background The Military Health System must develop and sustain experienced surgical trauma teams while facing decreased surgical volumes both during and between deployments.Military trauma resources may enhance local trauma systems by accepting civilian patients for care at military treatment facilities (MTFs).Some MTFs may be able to augment their

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Lowry and the Local

This WHITE WILLOW essay concerns a group of drawings made and exhibited in 1930 by L.S.Lowry in Ancoats, then a notorious (and pictorially unpromising) Manchester slum.Though many are now lost, we know enough about those that survive to say something about the representational project they exemplify.What does it mean to draw a slum? Lowry, one of t

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The Ground Is Full of Pitfalls: Association of Chronic Kidney Disease, Conflict Zones, and the Quality of Healthcare in Africa

Public health in sub-Saharan African countries is experiencing a double burden of diseases.First, for decades, these countries have been struggling against infectious diseases.Second, the demographic transition in the area is leading to a rising prevalence of non-communicable diseases (NCDs).Unfortunately, the health systems in sub-Saharan Africa a

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Cigarette smoke extract induces placental growth factor release from human bronchial epithelial cells via ROS/MAPK(ERK-1/2)/Egr-1 axis

Dong Wu,1,* Yalian Yuan,1,* Zhixiu Lin,2,* Tianwen Lai,1 Min Chen,1 Wen Li,1 Quanchao Lv,1 Binfan Yuan,1 Dongmin Li,1 Bin Wu1 1Department of Respiratory, Institute of Respiratory Diseases, 2Department of Pharmacy, The Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical University, Zhanjiang, People’s Republic of China *These authors contributed equally

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