TY - JOUR PY - 2006// TI - Attendances at a field hospital emergency department during operations in Iraq November 2003 to March 2004 (Operation Telic III) JO - Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps A1 - Reavley, P. D. A. A1 - Black, J. J. M. SP - 231 EP - 235 VL - 152 IS - 4 N2 - OBJECTIVE: This study investigated the types of presentations; time lines and disposal of patients from the international, local and military community in Southern Iraq. METHODS: All presentations to the Emergency Department (ED) were clinically and demographically coded and entered onto an electronic database. RESULTS: During the period studied the emergency department dealt with 1455 new presentations of which 75% were UK Armed Forces personnel. CONCLUSIONS: This represented a busy period in the field hospitals time in Iraq and offered valuable training to emergency medicine trainees in an unusual environment.

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