Journal of special operations medicine : a peer reviewed journal for SOF medical professionals
29533427
During routine aircraft start-up procedures at a US Naval Air Station, an aviation mishap occurred, resulting in the pilot suffering a traumatic brain injury and the copilot acquiring bilateral hemopneumothoraces, a ruptured diaphragm, and hepatic an...
BACKGROUND: Preventing suicides, mental disorders, and noncombat-related interpersonal violence during deployment are priorities of the US Army. We used predeployment survey and administrative data to develop actuarial models to identify soldiers at ...
Experiences of sexual trauma are associated with adverse patient and health system outcomes, but are not systematically documented in electronic health records (EHR). To describe variations in how sexual trauma is documented in the Veterans Health ...
Medicine and science in sports and exercise
30985586
INTRODUCTION: Musculoskeletal injury rates in military personnel remain unacceptably high. Application of machine learning algorithms could be useful in multivariate models to predict injury in this population. The purpose of this study was to invest...
Feature selection is an important initial step of exploratory analysis in biomedical studies. Its main objective is to eliminate the covariates that are uncorrelated with the outcome. For highly correlated covariates, traditional feature selection me...
Different adaptation rates have been reported in studies involving ankle exoskeletons designed to reduce the metabolic cost of their wearers. This work aimed to investigate energetic adaptations occurring over multiple training sessions, while walkin...
IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics
32324581
Military personnel have greater psychological stress and are at higher suicide attempt risk compared with the general population. High mental stress may cause suicide ideations which are crucially driving suicide attempts. However, traditional statis...
Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen
31705280
BACKGROUND: As in other areas, military surgery is being transformed by developments in artificial intelligence, robotics and digitalization. Although the prospect of operating with a robot-assisted surgery system in the country of deployment while t...
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery
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BACKGROUND: Current out-of-hospital protocols to determine hemorrhagic shock in civilian trauma systems rely on standard vital signs with military guidelines relying on heart rate and strength of the radial pulse on palpation, all of which have prove...