While designed for use by primary care providers in an ambulatory care setting, the modules can also be used to coordinate and standardize care within subspecialty teams and as teaching tools for students and house staff.
Post-Deployment Health Clinical Practice Guidelines
Deployment of forces in hostile or unfamiliar environments is inherently risky. While on these missions, military members may be exposed to such non-battle-related health problems as infections, pathogen- and vector-borne diseases, exposure to toxicants, and psychological and physical stress-all of which must be avoided or treated differently from battle causalities (Institute of Medicine, 2000).
Although symptoms and health concerns after a deployment may be indistinguishable from those reported in routine primary health care settings, deployment presents unique and often difficult challenges for military members, veterans, and their families. The military members may experience physical or psychological trauma resulting from a variety of factors, such as combat, environmental extremes, illness or infectious disease, injury, weapons of mass destruction, and potential environmental threats.
In early 1999, the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs and the Under Secretary for Health for Veterans Affairs initiated development of the "Clinical Practice Guideline for Post-Deployment Health Evaluation and Management" for evaluating armed forces personnel and veterans returning from deployment. The Guideline provides a structure, clinical tools, and linked resources allowing clinicians to evaluate and manage patients with deployment related health concerns.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Depression
Unexplained Symptoms
Review of the DOD/VHA Clinical Practice Guideline on Post-Deployment Evaluation.
This PowerPoint presentation provides an overview of the guideline.
Post Deployment Clinical Practice Guidelines Tool Kit Brief
"Tools" that encourage patients to take an active role in their health care and how to access care under the post-deployment clinical practice guideline.
Post-Deployment Health Clinical Practice Guidelines
A complete list of all of the Department of Defense (DoD)/Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) guidelines can be found on this Web page.
Navy Environmental Health Center (NEHC) - DoD/VA Clinical Practice Guideline for Post-Deployment Health (PDH)
The Population Health Directorate of the Navy Environmental Health Center (NEHC) is assisting Navy MTFs in implementing the DoD/VA Clinical Practice Guideline for Post-Deployment Health (PDH). Each MTF Commander should designate a staff member to lead the local program implementation. MTFs should provide NEHC (Clinical-Epi@nehc.mar.med.navy.mil) with POC contact information for their MTF, IAW BUMED guidance.
Explosions and Blast Injuries: A Primer for Clinicians
As the risk of terrorist attacks increases in the US, disaster response personnel must understand the unique pathophysiology of injuries associated with explosions and must be prepared to assess and treat the people injured by them.
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