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Index
1.
Climate
2. The Saga of the
desert boots
3. The resupply
scandal
4. The Salalah Song
5. The Noble Prizes for
Dhofar 1972
6. Three hundred Britons
in a secret war
7. Britons injured
as arabs attack base
8.
Officers who die on a distant battlefield
9. RAF Form 836
10. FST Standing Orders
11. Children's Army
12. The Arab State
gripped by a soviet reign of terror
13. Resupply
Revisited - Neostigmine
14. "Anaesthetist
in Salalah" G. Sharwood_Smith
15. 55 Field
Surgical Team in Salalah by Pete Starling
16. Medic in A Secret
War - Pete Starling
17. Surgery in
the Front Line - Pete Starling
18. Bullet wound to the skull
19.
Other Incarnations of 55FST - Ivan Houghton
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Adoo medical provision
21. Death from
natural causes
22. The Instant Arab NHS
23. Oman, where women now have a say
24. What will happen when the wells run dry ?
25.
The Technician's Tale
26. "Field Experience with the
Tri-Service Anaesthetic Machine"
27. "The Triservice Anaesthetic
Apparatus"
28. "Battle Casualties"
29. "War Casualties in Oman"
30. "Case report of an
interesting gunshot wound"
31. "The last F.S.T. in
Oman" or was it ???
32 "Air Defence of
RAF Salalah"
33. "16
Close Support Medical Regiment"
34 "The Telegraphist's
Tale"
35
"Casualty mortality after surgical
treatment"
36. "The Last
FST" "Tail End Charlies" by David Raitt
37 "Supporting Allies in
CounterInsurgency " by Walter C. Ladwig III
38. "Casualty Evacuation Timelines :An
Evidence Based Review"
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3.
The Resupply Scandal
Signals
for essential consumables such as Hartman'ssolution took weeks to arrive. An operating table that
could be adjusted for height, instead of the airportable
glorified stretcher that we were using, took nine weeksto arrive.
As time passed signals changed in tone.......
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13.
Resupply revisited -
Neostigmine & Diathermy
In
a large proportion of anaesthetics all the patients muscles are
paralysed with a curare like substance and artificial
ventilation is used. At the end of the operation the paralysis
is reversed with a drug named Neostigmine. In spite of repeated
requests............
Diathermy electrodes are used to
arrest bleeding.
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19.
Other Incarnations of 55 FST
A long article by Ivan Houghton with
a number of photographs. This is an account of other
incarnations of 55FST.
Other related matters are also included about anaesthetic machines and
their developement
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20.
Adoo Medical Provision
The provision of medical care by the adoo for the adoo was
hampered by poor provision of materials
and by few trained first aiders. In addition did not appear to
have any casevac helicopters
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Death from natural causes
There were a number of service men
who died from natural causes. The relatives of this particular
man
found it difficult to accept that he had died from electrocution
and not from enemy action.
A consular official
sought me out on a sandy beach in Caorle (yes my wife had
arranged a sandy beach holiday.........) to confirm that
the death had been from electrocution and not from enemy action.
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28. "Battle Casualties" Melsom, Farrar and Volkers
This article deals with
December 72 to March 73. Unfortunately the Publications
Manager from the Royal College of Surgeons in unwilling
to allow me to publish it.
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29. "War Casualties in Oman : a limited experience"
Soul, O.J.
Journal of the Royal Navy Medical Services. Vol 63,
No2 (Summer 1977) pp85 - 91
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30. "Case report of an interesting gunshot wound"
Osborne, A.H
Journal of the Royal Navy Medical Services. Vol 64,
No 2 (Summer 1978) pp105 - 109
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31. "The last F.S.T. in Oman" Osborne, A.H. & Raitt, D.G.
Journal of the Royal Navy
Medical Services. Vol 63, No 3 (Winter 1978)
pp 167 - 176
A
short precis can be found by "clicking" on the white
ensign.
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33 "16
Close Support Medical Regiment"
This modern day
successor to the FSTs of the past is currently training
at Thumrait in Oman in preparation for deployment to
Afghanistan.
I am grateful to Lt Col Paul Parker for the photograph
and information
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35.
"Casualty Mortality" |
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Casualty survival
after the injured have reached advanced medical and
surgical care following wounding is naturally a matter of supreme interest. It has gradually
improved (!) as the years and conflicts have gone by.
However obvious it may seem, the variables
involved have changed so much over the years that it is
invidious to compare the results obtained by one surgical team with the
results obtained by another.
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36."The Last FST" "Tail End Charlies" by David
Raitt |
| This article shows how
the emphasis of the FST changed. More and more civilians
were now being treated. In fact the FST could have done
with some paediatricians, GPs, a gynaecologist and a
dermatologist to win what was now the peace. The changes
driven by Commodre Harris RN and implemented in DCS15 in
the 90's of course have ensured that there are virtually
none of these specialists available for forward
deployment. The figures given in this article show that
there is an absolute need for such specialists. The
irony is that the team was commanded by a member of the
RN. The use of such specialists in Iraq and Afghanistan
would not only be humanitarian but win over the local
population and prove to be a "force multiplier"
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An article
written by Lt Col Paul Parker and published in the RAMC
journal. The link above is directly to the RAMC journal
and is dependent upon that link remaining in the public
domain. The article does not reside on this website.
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