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Combat Stress Casualties in Iraq. Part 1: Behavioral Health Consultation at an Expeditionary Medical Group
Author(s) -
Peterson Alan L.,
Baker Monty T.,
McCarthy Kelly R.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2008.00169.x
Subject(s) - mental health , medicine , military personnel , software deployment , psychiatry , military medicine , combat stress reaction , military psychiatry , health care , nursing , family medicine , medical emergency , political science , computer science , law , economics , economic growth , operating system
PURPOSE. We review the role of military mental health professionals in consulting with inpatient medical patients and staff at a combat hospital and aeromedical evacuation staging facility in Iraq . CONCLUSIONS. Behavioral health consultation with medical and surgical patients during hospitalization and prior to aeromedical evacuation can help identify patients with combat stress exposure that may require future mental health follow‐up . PRACTICE IMPLICATIONS. Extensive use of civilian mental health practitioners including nurse psychotherapists and psychiatric nurse practitioners will be needed to provide psychiatric care for the large number of U.S. veterans who return from deployment with combat stress related disorders .