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Maj. Roger Brockbank, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, works with doctors from the Basrah Women's and Children's Hospital during neonatal resuscitation training aboard Contingency Operating Base Basrah, June 10. Photo by Sgt. Rodney Foliente, 4th Infantry Division. BASRAH — U.S. doctors and medical staff conducted neonatal resuscitation training for local doctors aboard the Contingency Operating Base here, June 10-11. The 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, offered the training and introduced new procedures and equipment that can help save infant lives and reduce the risk of babies suffering from cerebral palsy and mental retardation."Iraq has one of...

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2009 – Coalition forces are helping Afghan civilians and soldiers alike with medical outreach that is curing illnesses, preventing diseases and keeping soldiers and security forces on the job. A traveling Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Afghanistan dentist extracts a decayed tooth from a village elder at a clinic in the Shindand district of Afghanistan’s Herat province, March 23, 2009. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Marie Schult  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. A Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force Afghanistan dental team provided treatment for Afghan civilians and soldiers in rural villages,...

Dr. Ali Satter Jabbar, Badhdad Brigade, tests his injection skills during medic training at Forward Operating Base Prosperity, Baghdad. The event is part of a train-the-trainer program held by the U.S. and Iraqi Armies. Photo by Master Sgt. David Moore.BAGHDAD — Medics from Headquarters and Headquarters Battery of the 1st Battalion, 7th Field Artillery provided a half-dozen Soldiers of the Baghdad Brigade lifesaving skills training in the event they suffer casualties on the battlefield or get injured in an accident. As part of the training program at the brigade’s headquarters, known as Forward Operating Base Honor, three U.S. Army medics conducted...

Spc. Neal Cooper cleans a wound on the face of a young Iraqi child. Photo by Sgt. Ryan Nolan, Multi-National Division – Baghdad. TAJI — A Pennsylvania Army National Guard medic is making a big difference for children here by providing a little medical care.Spc. Neal Cooper, from Myerstown, Pa., is a medic assigned to the 104th Cavalry Regiment, currently working in Shaykh Amir Village here, just north of Baghdad.Cooper completed Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas in August 2008, only one month before he was to deploy to Iraq. However, Cooper was well...

WASHINGTON, March 12, 2009 – The commander of U.S. Central Command last night praised the Army medics and Navy corpsmen whose courage on the battlefield protects the lives of fellow servicemembers. U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Stephanie Cates receives the Angels of the Battlefield Award from U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus, commander, U.S. Central Command, and U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton A. Schwartz, during a dinner in honor of military medics and corpsman at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., March 11, 2009. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Suzanne M. Day  (Click photo for...

ARLINGTON, Va., March 11, 2009 – Beneath the rows of simple white headstones evenly spaced beneath a dull and cloudy mid-March sky, the stories of those who rest at Arlington National Cemetery here today are anything but ordinary. Deborah Mullen, wife of Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks at the first Remembrance Ceremony in Dedication to Fallen Military Medical Personnel at Arlington National Cemetery, March 11, 2009. DoD photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Some were killed by heavy machine-gun fire. Others were...

A combat medic assigned to the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, makes a photographic record of a patient's foot. Courtesy photo. COB ADDER — Two Soldiers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, are responsible for providing physical therapy across three of Iraq's southern-most provinces.Capt. Candi Darst and Spc. Nicholas Pieper, assigned to the 27th Brigade Support Battalion, have provided their medical skills to Coalition forces, Iraqi Security Forces and Iraqi civilians in the Maysan, Muthanna and Dhi Qar provinces since the unit arrived here last summer."While the contributions of the brigade physical therapist are not...

An Iraqi Army combat medic with the 38th Brigade, 10th Iraqi Army inserts an Intravenous needle into one of his fellow troops during a combat life saver course taught by an Iraqi instructor on Forward Operating Base Garry Owen. Photo by 1st Lt. Jerry Roberts, 1st Cavalry Division. FOB GARRY OWEN — Thirteen of the Iraqi Army’s newest combat medics graduated the Combat Life Saver’s course here, Feb. 4. The 38th Brigade, 10th Iraqi Army Division, with assistance from 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Div. Soldiers, taught the Iraqi troops the same skills most American Soldiers learn while preparing...

KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 13, 2009 – Sick and injured Afghans will get treatment faster thanks to a coalition command’s donation of ambulances. Air Force Maj. David Andrews, Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan’s senior medical advisor for the Afghan National Police, explains the advantages of having emergency medical patient transportation to Brig. Gen. Qandahar, ANP surgeon general, and Col. Par Wan, ANP deputy surgeon general, Jan. 3, 2009. U.S. Navy photo by Seaman Tim Newborn  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. Servicemembers deployed to the Combined Security Transition Command- Afghanistan command surgeon’s office provided seven modified urban ambulances to the...

<p>Two EMT workers in Britain were arrested after they were heard allegedly discussing whether they should bother to resuscitate a disabled man who had collapsed at home and subsequently died.</p> <p>Barry Baker, 59, who lived alone, dialed 911 saying that he thought he was having a heart attack. An ambulance was sent to his house while a controller kept him talking on the line.</p>

First responders rush onto ice Medical staff for Blue Jackets gets training to handle in-game emergencies in wake of nearly fatal NHL injury Monday, September 22, 2008 3:13 AM By Suzanne Hoholik THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Mike Vogt, head athletic trainer of the Columbus Blue Jackets, demonstrates chest compressions in a training session for the medical personnel who staff the hockey team's games. Rich Phillips, who drives the Zamboni machine that smoothes the Nationwide Arena ice, portrays a stricken player. When the fastest game in sports comes to a halt because a hockey player is down on the ice or heads...

ST. PETE’S BEACH, Fla., Aug. 19, 2008 – Scientists and battlefield medical clinicians shared their knowledge and experiences to advance medicine during the military’s premier trauma care conference here. The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command’s annual Advanced Technology Applications for Combat Casualty Care Conference was held Aug. 11 to 15. What evolved from a disjointed vendor-oriented conference more than 10 years ago with just a couple hundred participants is now an extremely relevant knowledge exchange that has the ability to improve military medicine, said Army Col. Bob Vandre, a former MRMC Combat Casualty Care Program director who organized...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HAMMER, Iraq, July 24, 2008 – Medics and doctors play a key role in maintaining the health and safety of U.S. soldiers throughout Iraq. A doctor from Montgomery Village, Md., brings especially important skills to the combat theater. Army Lt. Col. (Dr.) Margaret Swanberg, of Montgomery Village, Md., checks the pupils of Army Spc. Michael Woywood, of San Antonio, for dilation during a military acute concussion evaluation demonstration at Forward Operating Base Hammer, Iraq, July 18, 2008. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Michael Schuch, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division   (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution...

Sgt. Lucas Gonzales, a physical therapy specialist with 225th Brigade Support Battalion, shows the staff of the Taji Healthcare Clinic how to properly use a device which provides pain relief in the back and neck. Photo by Pfc. Lyndsey Dransfield, 2nd Stryker Brigade 25th Infantry Division. CAMP TAJI — Three Soldiers from the 225th Brigade Support Battalion recently visited with the doctors, nurses and physicians of the Taji Health Clinic to provide the staff with hands-on training on some new medical equipment.Due to the devastating consequences of war, healthcare in Iraq has suffered severely over the past seven years. Coalition...

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, July 2, 2008 – An airman and a sailor from Combined Joint Task Force 101 here teamed up with Afghan doctors and other coalition medics June 26 to host a village medical outreach event in the village of Nilay in the Kohe Safi district of Afghanistan’s Parawan province. Navy Cmdr. Beth Myhre, officer in charge of the cooperative medical assistance team, checks an Afghan child’s burn scars as part of a medical outreach event in Nilay village in the Kohe Sofe district of Afghanistan’s Parwan province, June 26, 2008. U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Tamara...

WASHINGTON, April 15, 2008 – Insurgents attacked a medical outreach team of Afghan National Army and coalition forces in the Sanguin district of Afghanistan’s Helmand province April 12, military officials reported. The insurgents attacked the team with rocket-propelled grenades and small-arms fire while medics were providing care to local citizens outside a coalition base. There were no reports of civilian or coalition casualties. Elsewhere in southern Afghanistan, two other medical outreach missions were conducted without incident. Near the village of Shamshad in Oruzgan province, medics treated about 110 people. A team treated more than 130 Afghans in the Gereshk district...

3/27/2008 - SATHER AIR BASE, Iraq (AFPN) -- "Bag him!" "I need an X-ray in here!" "I've got an abnormal rhythm!" "Somebody get me some vitals!" This could be the sounds of the fast-paced tempo and organized chaos of any emergency room anywhere, but these voices are being heard in a combat zone, where major trauma care can be more complex by the added stress of the environment. To help alleviate the stress put on the 11 doctors, nurses and medics at the 447th Expeditionary Medical Squadron here, Col. Gregory Biernacki, the 447th EMEDS commander, has implemented training for the...

WASHINGTON, March 6, 2008 – The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff praised the Army medics and Navy corpsmen who risk their lives on the battlefield to save others at the 2nd annual Armed Services YMCA gala here last night. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and retired Navy Rear Adm. S. Frank Gallo, national executive director, Armed Services YMCA, present the Angels of the Battlefield Award to Navy Seaman Elvis H. Gichini, a corpsman, during a gala dinner in honor of military medics and corpsman at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington,...

CAMP EGGERS, Afghanistan, Feb. 15, 2008 – Five medics received Army Achievement Medals on Feb. 9 for their actions following the bombing of the Serena Hotel, in Kabul, by Taliban forces Jan. 14. Army Spc. Isiah Soto, of the Camp Eggers Medical Platoon, salutes Platoon Leader 1st Lt. Brian Gomez Feb. 9, 2008, after Gomez pinned Soto and four other soldiers with Army Achievement Medals for their actions in a hotel bombing in Kabul earlier in the month. The ceremony was on Camp Eggers, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo by Staff Sgt. Luis P. Valdespino, USMC  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution...

Muslim medical students are refusing to obey hygiene rules brought in to stop the spread of deadly superbugs, because they say it is against their religion. Women training in several hospitals in England have raised objections to removing their arm coverings in theatre and to rolling up their sleeves when washing their hands, because it is regarded as immodest in Islam.