Being a woman, being a soldier, being a mother: a qualitative analysis of perceptions of pregnancy on working lives of women in the Spanish Armed Forces.

INTRODUCTION: Thirty-two years after Spain first allowed women to join the armed forces, 12% of active troops are women, although there are no data on how many of them are mothers. There is a lack of research related to the impact of motherhood on their careers and the challenges they face as well. Previous quantitative research, within North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces, has focused on the increased vulnerability and reduced performance of women returning to service after childbirth. However, no study to date has examined the narratives of these women. METHODS: A qualitative, cross-sectional study was carried out by means of individual interviews which were subsequently analysed employing the interpretative approach of hermeneutic phenomenology. All the interviews were conducted by videoconference, being recorded for subsequent transcription and analysis with MAXQDA v.2018. RESULTS: Servicewoman reported experiencing fear of informing their command chain of their pregnancy. Many women described feelings of constantly having to prove their worth, and thus perceived the physical restrictions associated with pregnancy and/or postpartum as a threat to their previous achievements. This sometimes led to behaviours that posed a risk to the health of mothers and babies, or eventually resulted in both acute and chronic conditions. CONCLUSIONS: Some restrictions put in place to protect them during their pregnancies become a source of additional anxiety. Returning to active service, we found that women's desire to fulfil their duties can cause long-term damage to their physical and psychological health. The attitudes servicewomen perceive towards pregnant women and mothers seems to exert a strong influence on the risks they are willing to assume. Understanding and addressing the needs of servicewomen after childbirth, either now, as active members of the Armed Forces, or in the foreseeable future, as veterans, is crucial to both military and civilian healthcare providers.

[Implementation of the Hartford Consensus and Tactical Combat Casualty Care recommendations in emergency services: a review of the literature]. / Implementación de las recomendaciones del Consenso de Hartford y Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) en los servicios de emergencia: revisión bibliográfica.

en: Recent terrorist attacks involving active shooters or improvised explosive devices have shown that traditionally sequenced emergency management leads to delays in attending victims and suboptimal outcomes. Tactical medicine, a new concept in prehospital care, emerged from experience attending the wounded in combat zones, where the Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) recommendations are applied. TCCC targets 3 main causes of preventable death in combat: bleeding from extremities, tension pneumothorax, and airway obstruction. A change in the delivery of emergency care during terrorist attacks is now required if we are to improve survival rates. To that end, strategies based on the TCCC and Hartford Consensus recommendations have been developed. Both these approaches describe procedures for both first responders and medical professionals to apply in areas under threat.

ES: Los recientes incidentes con atentados terroristas con tiradores activos o artefactos explosivos improvisados han demostrado que la atención secuencial tradicional produce retrasos en la atención a las víctimas, con resultados no totalmente satisfactorios. La medicina táctica es una nueva herramienta para aplicar en la atención prehospitalaria, que surge de la experiencia en el cuidado a los heridos en zona de combate, aplicando las recomendaciones del Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC). Mediante estas directrices, se trata de disminuir las tres principales causas de muerte prevenible en combate: hemorragia en extremidades, neumotórax a tensión y obstrucción de vía aérea. Para mejorar los índices de supervivencia en incidentes terroristas, es necesario cambiar la forma de atención de los servicios de emergencia. A partir de la experiencia obtenida con el TCCC, el Consenso Hartford y el Comité Táctical Emergency Casualty Care han desarrollado estrategias para mejorar la supervivencia. Ambos desarrollan recomendaciones sobre procedimientos de atención sanitaria dirigidos a primeros intervinientes y a profesionales para su aplicación en entorno hostil.

Implementación de las recomendaciones del Consenso de Hartford y Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC) en los servicios de emergencia: revisión bibliográfica / Implementation of the Hartford Consensus and Tactical Combat Casualty Care recommendations in emergency services: a review of the literature

Los recientes incidentes con atentados terroristas con tiradores activos o artefactos explosivos improvisados han demostrado que la atención secuencial tradicional produce retrasos en la atención a las víctimas, con resultados no totalmente satisfactorios. La medicina táctica es una nueva herramienta para aplicar en la atención prehospitalaria, que surge de la experiencia en el cuidado a los heridos en zona de combate, aplicando las recomendaciones del Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC). Mediante estas directrices, se trata de disminuir las tres principales causas de muerte prevenible en combate: hemorragia en extremidades, neumotorax a tensión y obstrucción de vía aérea. Para mejorar los índices de supervivencia en incidentes terroristas, es necesario cambiar la forma de atención de los servicios de emergencia. A partir de la experiencia obtenida con el TCCC, el Consenso Hartford y el Comite Tactical Emergency Casualty Care han desarrollado estrategias para mejorar la supervivencia. Ambos desarrollan recomendaciones sobre procedimientos de atención sanitaria dirigidos a primeros intervinientes y a profesionales para su aplicación en entorno hostil (AU)

Recent terrorist attacks involving active shooters or improvised explosive devices have shown that traditionally sequenced emergency management leads to delays in attending victims and suboptimal outcomes. Tactical medicine, a new concept in prehospital care, emerged from experience attending the wounded in combat zones, where the Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) recommendations are applied. TCCC targets 3 main causes of preventable death in combat: bleeding from extremities, tension pneumothorax, and airway obstruction. A change in the delivery of emergency care during terrorist attacks is now required if we are to improve survival rates. To that end, strategies based on the TCCC and Hartford Consensus recommendations have been developed. Both these approaches describe procedures for both first responders and medical professionals to apply in areas under threat (AU)