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The Experience of the Croatian Army Brigade 105 Medical Corps Unit as a Mobile Surgical Team 1991-1992
Stjepan Grabovac
Vladimir Ferenčak
Dubravko Habek
Darko Košćak
Abstract
The fierce and abrupt aggression on Croatia in 1991-1992, characterized by practically no border between the battlefield and the rear, communication breakdown, destroyed economy, and great psychological impact on both civilians and army units imposed the need of high-professional, independent mobile medical corps units qualified for providing highly differentiated health care immediately upon wound infliction, and for efficient evacuation and transportation of patients in extremely difficult conditions. The structure and work of the Medical Corps Unit working as a mobile surgical team of the Croatian Army Brigade 105 from Bjelovar, Croatia, from September 1, 1991 till October 1, 1992 is presented. With such a unit structure, the time of patient transfer to operative theater was considerably reduced, thus decreasing the overall patient morbidity and mortality, and minimizing the definitive grade of disability. During the study period, 242 operative procedures were performed in 228 patients, 222 of these in local anesthesia and 20 in general anesthesia. The overall Brigade 105 mortality was 2.16%.
Keywords
Mobile surgical team; Military medicine; War; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
14083
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Publication date:
1.5.2006.
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