Military Medical Ethics – Scenario Collection
Level of care under limited resources
To fly or not to fly – MEDEVAC
"The only physician in a 17.000 inhabitants town asks for a MEDEVAC. The local doctor describes a stable case of a 40y man with chronic hypertension, who presented with a 12-hour long chest pain...
19 Aug, 2020 Views: 266 Comments: 0
Different treatment depending on nationality
Report from a Canadian military doctor: "When we received news that a mass casualty was en route with severe burns, we were told not to intubate Afghans with burns over more than 50 percent of...
19 Aug, 2021 Views: 191 Comments: 0
Keep alive despite massive wounds and unsure quality of life?
The ability to maintain the wounded alive is nothing less than astounding. Medical advances, combined with improved body armour and rapid evacuation, have resulted in lives saved that would have...
19 Aug, 2021 Views: 199 Comments: 0
Snake bite – do you use antivenom for a local patient?
A report comes in announcing there is a patient at the main gate. Military nurse Yvonne goes there, together with a military physician and a number of colleagues. At the gate is a father holding a...
15 Sep, 2022 Views: 274 Comments: 0

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