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USNS Comfort<\/em> receiving vertical replenishment, courtesy of United States Navy Archives. Photograph by Thomas Balfour.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” transparent_background=”on” background_color=”#edede1″ allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” background_image=”https:\/\/www.geoffreykayemuseum.org.au\/trailblazers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/8425_iStock_000046704306_Double-Colour-web.jpg”][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left”]<\/p>\n MICHAEL WILSON\u00a0<\/strong>MB, BS, FANZCA When the American hospital ship, USNS Comfort<\/em> set sail for the Persian Gulf, the crew included Michael Wilson, an Australian anaesthetist.<\/p>\n This war carried a real threat of chemical and biological weapons. Soldiers took oral pyridostigmine, and US and British troops were issued self-injectors of atropine and pralidoxime in case of exposure.<\/p>\n Some patients self-administered unnecessarily, mistaking symptoms of heat-stroke for nerve agent attack.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left”]<\/p>\n Soldiers who self-injected presented with an array of problems and the drugs interact with muscle relaxants, causing problems for anaesthetists.<\/p>\n Anaesthesia was planned for rapid recovery in case of evacuation. However, regional anaesthesia wasn\u2019t common, although spinals were sometimes administered. Ketamine was available but not widely used and general anaesthesia was usually administered.<\/p>\n During Desert Shield, the ship received a string of patients due to accidents and casualties from the desert. 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Sgt. David McLeod<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fullwidth=”on” specialty=”off”][et_pb_fullwidth_slider admin_label=”Fullwidth Slider” show_arrows=”on” show_pagination=”on” auto=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off”][et_pb_slide background_image=”https:\/\/www.geoffreykayemuseum.org.au\/trailblazers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/brian-pezzuti.jpg” background_color=”#ffffff” alignment=”center” background_layout=”dark” allow_player_pause=”off” \/][\/et_pb_fullwidth_slider][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” transparent_background=”on” background_color=”#595959″ allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” background_image=”https:\/\/www.geoffreykayemuseum.org.au\/trailblazers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/blue-back-texture1.png”][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Gulf War Image 3″ src=”https:\/\/www.geoffreykayemuseum.org.au\/trailblazers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DA-ST-92-07722-Black-smoke-pours…jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”on” alt=”Black smoke pours from burning oil at an offshore oil terminal near Kuwait City ” \/][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_image admin_label=”Gulf War Image 4″ src=”https:\/\/www.geoffreykayemuseum.org.au\/trailblazers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Meritorious-unit-citation-courtesy-of-Australian-Government-Department-of-Defence1.jpg” show_in_lightbox=”on” url_new_window=”off” animation=”off” sticky=”on” alt=”Meritorious unit citation” \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left”]<\/p>\n Black smoke pours from burning oil at an offshore oil terminal near Kuwait City destroyed during Operation Desert Storm, 05\/22\/1992, US National Archives<\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left”]<\/p>\n Meritorious Unit Citation Commemorative Medal, courtesy\u00a0of Australian Government Department of Defence<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fullwidth=”off” specialty=”off” transparent_background=”on” background_color=”#edede1″ allow_player_pause=”off” inner_shadow=”off” parallax=”off” parallax_method=”off” background_image=”https:\/\/www.geoffreykayemuseum.org.au\/trailblazers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/8425_iStock_000046704306_Double-Colour-web.jpg”][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left”]<\/p>\n BRIAN PEZZUTTI\u00a0<\/strong>CSC RFD,\u00a0MB, BS (Syd), FFARACS, FANZCA Brian Pezzutti was part of an Australian team assembled at short notice to replace those coming home. He was the only doctor on the team and the only person deployed as an anaesthetist.<\/p>\n The workload included Allied military, local military and police, prisoners of war, and occasionally local civilians.<\/p>\n \u201cMy deployment to the Middle East was to serve with the US Air Force at the Level 3 Hospital at Balad Air Base in northern Iraq. This facility was the largest during the second Gulf War and through which all casualties from the Middle East were flown to the US via Germany.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_2″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” background_layout=”light” text_orientation=”left”]<\/p>\n The seriously wounded usually arrived en masse. There were two theatres, each with two tables. 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\nGULF WAR<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>GULF WAR<\/p>\n