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Volume 28 Number 2 April 2020 Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health Warfare, Ships and Medicine in Ancient Egypt and Greece RY ME A DI IT C L I Infection Prevention and Control Practices in the Deployed Military Field Hospital I N M E A N S A I S O S A C L I A Adjunct Activities for Mental Health Improvement for Veterans A T R I T O S N U A IN C. The Journal of the Australasian Military Medicine Association C N . I U A N T S O I R T A A L I A C S O I S A S N A M E I N L I I C T I A D R E Y M Y ME AR D T IC I I IL N M E A N S A I S O S A C L I A A T R I T O S N U A IN C. The AMMA Council & JMVH Editorial Board are Volume 27 Number 4 October 2019 Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health calling for expressions of interest to join the Volume 27 Number 3 July 2019 Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health JMVH Editorial Board. We currently have Rehabilitation in the Australian Defence Force RY ME A DI IT C L I Stress and Immune Mediators In The Canadian Armed Forces I N M E A N S A I S O S A C L I A 2019 AMMA Conference Abstracts A T R I T O S N U A IN C. Volume 28 Number 1 January 2020 The Journal of the Australasian Military Medicine Association Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health four vacancies. Please email [email protected] for more details. Public Perception of Dentists’ Ability to Manage a Medical Emergency RY ME A DI IT C L I Does Current Policy Support Reproductive Health of Australian Defence Force Veterans? I N M E A N S A I S O S A C L I A Case Report of a Former Soldier Using TRE For Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Self-Care A T R I T O S N U A IN C. The Journal of the Australasian Military Medicine Association Warfare, Ships and Medicine: Prehistoric Origins RY ME A DI IT C L I Casualty Evacuation in the Australian Defence Force I N M E A N S A I S O S A C L I A Scaffolded Clinical Skills Development for Clinical Managers in the Royal Australian Navy A T R I T O S N U A IN C. The Journal of the Australasian Military Medicine Association Do you have an article of interest to our readers? The Journal of Military and Veteran’s Health is a peer reviewed quarterly publication published by the Australasian Military Medicine Association. The JMVH Editorial Board has identified the following themes and deadlines for future editions: Authors are invited to submit articles of relevance to the Editor for consideration for publication in the Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health (JMVH). See the JMVH website for Categories include: authors’ instructions and Original Research/Original Articles Biographies submit your article online at www.jmvh.org Short Communication History Review Articles Book Reviews Reprinted Articles Commentary Case Studies View from the Front Abstracts from the Literature Table of Contents Editorial ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������5 Original Articles Loaded March and FORCE Combat Performance: Effects of Heat Exposure and Previous Experience 6 Warfare, Ships and Medicine in Ancient Egypt and Greece 18 The Effects of Depression on Success in Male Soldiers Sexually Transmitted Disease and Reproductive Health Education ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 31 Military Medicine Capabilities in the Australian Defence Force 39 The Prevalence of Prostate, Urinary Bladder and Kidney Cancer Among the Homeland War Veterans 50 Review Articles Infection Prevention and Control Practices in the Deployed Military Field Hospital: An integrative review ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 57 Adjunct Activities for Mental Health Improvement for Veterans 70 Short Communication Measles Mortality in the Armies of the Early 20th Century 79 Cover Photo: Ambulances come in many shapes and sizes by Murray Hayes Volume 28 Number 2; April 2020 Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health EDITORIAL BOARD CDRE Andrew Robertson (Editor in Chief, JMVH) Associate Professor Martin Richardson (Deputy Editor) BRIG Anne Campbell CDRE Michael Dowsett Dr Helen Kelsall COL Prof Peter Leggat, AM Dr David Robertson Jason Watterson Australasian Military Medicine Association PATRON STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES MAJGEN Charles New The Australasian Military Medicine Association is Surgeon General Australian Defence Force Reserves an independent, professional scientific organisation of health professionals with the objectives of: COUNCIL • Promoting the study of military medicine • Bringing together those with an interest in President GPCAPT (Retd) military medicine Geoff Robinson, NSC • Disseminating knowledge of military medicine Vice President Dr Nader Abou-Seif • Publishing and distributing a journal in military medicine Secretary Dr Janet Scott • Promoting research in military medicine Treasurer CAPT Ian Young, AM Membership of the Association is open to doctors, Council Members Dr Peter Hurly dentists, nurses, pharmacists, paramedics and OStJ, DSD, JCD anyone with a professional interest in any of the Rachelle Bonner disciplines of military medicine The Association is totally independent of the Australian Defence Force MAJ Brendan Wood CStJ, DSD RNZAMC Past President Dr Greg Mahoney Public Officer Ms Paula Leishman JMVH is published by the Australasian Military Medicine Association 227 Collins Street Hobart Tas 7000 Australia Ph: +61 3 62347844 Email: [email protected] ISSN No. 1835-1271 Journal of Military and Veterans’ Health Editorial I hope this issue will provide you all with some Colonel Darryl Tong, oral and faciomaxillary surgeon further reading material to get you through the with the New Zealand Defence Force, is Professor frustrating COVID19 lockdown It has been a very and Head of the department of oral diagnostic and challenging time for all in our community and added surgical sciences at the University of Otago His a layer of complexity to our defence force members particular interest and PhD topics were maxillofacial and supporters trauma and ballistic injuries in war from an integrated historical and surgical viewpoint He This second issue for 2020 provides a potpourri of served in Afghanistan in 2009 and in a field hospital articles, including several international contributors; for the Christchurch earthquake tragedy demonstrating the effect of heat exposure and previous experience on soldier’s performance; a Dr Tyler Smith received his BS in mathematics prevalence study on urological cancers in Homeland and statistics from California State University war veterans in Croatia; and an article from Turkey and his PhD at UC San Diego He is a statistical outlining the effect of depression on a reproductive epidemiologist and professor at the National and sexual health program in male soldiers University We have benefited from his expertise in military and population health analytics, and PTSD Skipp et al offer an integrative review of a deployed and suicide in the military and health outcomes military field hospital with regards to infection prevention and Watt and Kehoe provide adjunct Dr Benjamin Mackie is an army reserve nursing activities to improve veteran’s mental health officer and a lecturer in nursing at the University of Sunshine Coast, achieving his PhD at Griffiths A regular contributor, CMDR Neil Westphalen, University He is a Fellow of the Australasian offers us an article outlining the military medical College of Critical Care Nurses (FACCCN) and we capabilities of the ADF and also provides us with have benefited greatly from his interest in hospital a further contribution in his Navy medical history disaster preparedness and nursing critical care theme, taking us back to Ancient Egypt and Greece to help us reflect on the development of medicine over We wish them all well for their future academic and the ages In a similar vein, Dennis Shanks outlines military careers and hope we can continue to reach the mortality secondary to measles in armies of the out for their expertise for future articles requiring 20th century their reviewing input I would like to conclude this editorial by offering a Associate Professor Martin Richardson huge vote of thanks to three retiring editorial board Commander RAN members who between them have devoted many Deputy Editor years of service to this journal, offering sage counsel on the many journal articles submitted to the journal for publication Volume 28 Number 2; April 2020 Page 5 Original Article Loaded March and FORCE Combat™ Performance: Effects of Heat Exposure and Previous Experience H Tingelstad, T Reilly, B Kehoe, E Verdon, K Semeniuk, F Haman Abstract Purpose: This study investigated the effects of heat exposure and previous experience on thermoregulatory and cardiovascular responses to performing a loaded march in the HEAT and on FORCE Combat™ circuit performance Methods: Ten civilians (inexperienced) and 10 infantry reservists (experienced) performed a 60 min loaded march (~35kg), in NORMAL (21±02°C) and HEAT (30±02°C) conditions and the FORCE Combat™ military physical performance evaluation Participant groups were matched for morphology and physiological capacity Results: Out of the 10 experienced participants that participated in the loaded march in HEAT, 9 completed the full 60 min but only 5 of 10 inexperienced participants were able to do the same Performing a loaded march in the HEAT caused a state of uncompensable heat stress (continuous increase in core temperature)