Deployed Medicine vs Travax

Deployed Medicine is an innovative learning service developed to supplement the medical education and training of U.S. military personnel, although some of the medical content could be broadly applied for use by civilian medical providers. The information contained in this app is designed to serve as a supplementary resource to reinforce prior training, and to help you deliver high quality trauma care in deployed settings. The medical content currently focuses on tactical combat casualty care (TCCC) training for combat medical personnel, and includes topics, such as hemorrhage control, airway management, hypothermia, pain control and care of wounds and splinting etc. TCCC focuses of providing the information you need to know to assess, treat and stabilize a patient at the point of injury. Additional content will be added over time to cover a broad range of military trauma training resources ranging from the most basic training, suitable for non-medical military personnel, and more advanced material for doctors, nurses and physicians assistants. Features: • Pocket Guides offer short and compact learning modules. • Videos from peers teach you “how-to” perform a skill in under 3 minutes, and other information. • Podcasts provide key updates from experts. • Reference Repository contains important reference materials or the “why” behind the techniques and information being taught. • The app is designed to work online and offline to accommodate use in the field and while traveling abroad. • In app alerts will keep you up-to-date and connected to the latest information. The Deployed Medicine app was created by a multidisciplinary team of medical, learning and software engineers in close collaboration with U.S. military experts. All medical content contained in this app was reviewed and approved by the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care, which is composed of trauma experts from across the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. The Deployed Medicine app is a research and development effort sponsored by the Defense Health Agency in Falls Church, Virginia.

Travax puts the world of travel medicine at your fingertips in 3 sections: Destinations, Library, and What's New. Destinations provides an in-depth Medical Summary with carefully nuanced vaccine recommendations, detailed independently researched malaria prevention measures, assessment of travelers' diarrhea risk and effective medications, other important health risks, and medical care infrastructure assessment and access information. Detailed searchable country maps for malaria and yellow fever show where specific preventive measures are recommended, and elevation maps are included for countries with territory above 2,800 meters (9,200 feet). Additional country-specific documents include Cross-Cultural Considerations, an analysis of cultural conventions intended to help travelers avoid missteps and misunderstandings; Safety and Security, with important crime and safety information; a recap of Basic Protective Measures travelers should take; Hospitals, listing the locations and capabilities of medical facilities in key locations throughout the country. Library makes more than 100 travel health topics available for research with multiple document types available for many, including academic-quality provider summaries, traveler teaching sheets, and Travax Literature Watch Reviews (abstract, commentary, and conclusion for published articles selected for their impact on the practice of travel medicine or addition to the knowledge base). What's New shows current bulletins and provides a searchable 2-year history of updates to Travax information. Typical items include disease outbreak information (usually reported as Current Health Bulletins in the country Medical Summary), Current Safety Bulletins from the country Safety and Security page, updates to significant changes to destination-specific medical recommendations, and updates to Library articles and the addition of Literature Watch Reviews. Available for current subscribers of Travax.