Travis Air Force Base Research Articles

Pan Am makes the going great

The great Boeing 707/321C cargo jet rolled off the runway toward the unloading ramp of Travis Air Force Base. Turned and stopped by the white-overalled technician waving a long, orange-coned flashlight, its doors rolled open to reveal the lightweight load it had brought on its return from the distant battlefield: one hundred and sixty-eight plastic-wrapped, aluminum-boxed bundles, the bodies of American soldiers killed in Vietnam. Another Pan American World Airways all-cargo charter was ready for unloading.

Military aeromedical evacuation and psychiatric patients during the Viet Nam war.

A statistical study of all patients in the aeromedical system who entered Travis Air Force Base during a six-month period reveals the percentage of psychiatric patients (by individual military service) and also the percentage of patients with psychoses, neuroses, and character disorders. Studies during World War II and the Korean War are utilized to assess the effectiveness of present-day preventive psychiatric practices in the military. The author also discusses the effect of the Vietnamese war on psychiatric patients at David Grant USAF Hospital.

Ataxia-telangiectasia. Report of a case and review of the literature.

In 1941 Madame Louis-Bar 1 described a 9-year-old boy with progressive cerebellar ataxia and bilateral symmetrical telangiectasia involving the sclerae, the external ears, and the exposed skin of the extremities. The disease is usually familial and includes abnormality of eye movements, dysarthria, decreased deep reflexes, tendency to frequent sinopulmonary infections and retardation of physical development. Between 1956 and 1960, a series of independent reports from 8 medical centers described 22 children with this syndrome. 2-11 The most notable of these is the excellent paper by Boder and Sedgwick, which reports on 8 cases. 3 * The present report deals with another case which we have observed. The available literature is reviewed and discussed and the possible relationship of the disease to the hereditary ataxias and the phakomatoses is considered. Report of Case The patient was a 10-year-old Caucasian boy, admitted to Travis Air Force Base Hospital on April 10, 1959,

Device for Urine Collections

The recent appearance of several articles showing more or less complex devices for collecting urine from baby boys prompts me to describe a simple and effective technique; this system was devised and used for 2 years at Travis Air Force Base Hospital and has been used on the infants' ward at the University of California Medical [See FIG. 1. in Source Pdf] Center for 1½ years. The components can be found in any hospital; the apparatus can be assembled and affixed in 10 minutes; it does not leak; no skin irritation has been noted, even with 4-day collection periods; and it can be washed, stored and re-used indefinitely. (See Fig. 1.)

Obstructing enterogenous cyst of the duodenum treated by cystojejunostomy.

From the Surgical Service, 4167th USAF Hospital, Travis Air Force Base, California † Now in Private Practice 4101 J. St., Sacramento, Calif.