Peterson Alan L, Baker Monty T, McCarthy Kelly R
Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, and Center for Clinical Health Psychology Research, Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, TX, USA.
Perspect Psychiatr Care. 2008 Jul;44(3):159-68. doi: 10.1111/j.1744-6163.2008.00170.x.
Exposure to combat-related trauma is a leading cause of posttraumatic stress disorder. Deployed military mental health practitioners serve important roles in the assessment, diagnosis, and aeromedical evacuation of psychiatric patients from the combat zone.
To review the role of military mental health professionals working with psychiatric patients at a combat hospital and aeromedical staging facility in Iraq.
Military operating instructions, existing theoretical and research literature, and personal experiences of the authors while deployed to Iraq.
Psychiatric screening can help reduce risk in potentially unstable mental health patients prior to aeromedical evacuation. Civilian nurse psychotherapists and advanced practice psychiatric nurses will be needed to provide psychiatric follow-up care for the large number of military veterans returning from combat.
接触与战斗相关的创伤是创伤后应激障碍的主要原因。部署在战区的军事心理健康从业者在精神病患者从战区的评估、诊断和航空医疗后送中发挥着重要作用。
回顾军事心理健康专业人员在伊拉克一家战斗医院和航空医疗中转设施中与精神病患者合作的作用。
军事行动指令、现有的理论和研究文献以及作者在部署到伊拉克期间的个人经历。
精神病筛查有助于在航空医疗后送前降低潜在不稳定心理健康患者的风险。需要 civilian nurse psychotherapists（此处可能有误，推测为“文职护士心理治疗师”）和高级执业精神科护士为大量从战斗中归来的退伍军人提供精神病后续护理。
