Author : Brent Thomas
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,85 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781977406866
The Military Health System needs an agile, resilient, and global network of treatment and storage facilities and transportation assets, as well as knowledge of gaps and risks that could hinder effective medical support for future combat operations.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 36,5 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Emergency medical services
ISBN :
The Military Health System will need to implement a portfolio of mitigation strategies to ensure an agile, resilient, and global network of capabilities and a robust industrial supply base to effectively treat combat casualties in future conflicts.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 531 pages
File Size : 22,51 MB
Release : 2016-10-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309442850
Advances in trauma care have accelerated over the past decade, spurred by the significant burden of injury from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Between 2005 and 2013, the case fatality rate for United States service members injured in Afghanistan decreased by nearly 50 percent, despite an increase in the severity of injury among U.S. troops during the same period of time. But as the war in Afghanistan ends, knowledge and advances in trauma care developed by the Department of Defense (DoD) over the past decade from experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq may be lost. This would have implications for the quality of trauma care both within the DoD and in the civilian setting, where adoption of military advances in trauma care has become increasingly common and necessary to improve the response to multiple civilian casualty events. Intentional steps to codify and harvest the lessons learned within the military's trauma system are needed to ensure a ready military medical force for future combat and to prevent death from survivable injuries in both military and civilian systems. This will require partnership across military and civilian sectors and a sustained commitment from trauma system leaders at all levels to assure that the necessary knowledge and tools are not lost. A National Trauma Care System defines the components of a learning health system necessary to enable continued improvement in trauma care in both the civilian and the military sectors. This report provides recommendations to ensure that lessons learned over the past decade from the military's experiences in Afghanistan and Iraq are sustained and built upon for future combat operations and translated into the U.S. civilian system.
Author : U. S. Military
Publisher :
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 31,87 MB
Release : 2017-03-09
Category :
ISBN : 9781520793030
This is a complete reproduction of the revised Edition C of the Army's Combat Lifesaver course. The course contains information needed to pass the written, written performance, and performance examinations for combat lifesaver certification and recertification. All of the tasks contain important, lifesaving information. Terminal objectives are: Tactically manage a casualty. Given a casualty in a battlefield environment and a combat lifesaver medical equipment set. Applied the procedures given in this course so that the mission is not endangered and the risk of additional injury to the casualty is minimized. Evaluate and treat a casualty. Given a combat lifesaver medical equipment set and a casualty with one or more of the following problems: blocked airway, no respiration, bleeding from an extremity, amputation of an extremity, hypovolemic shock, or open chest wound. Performed needed procedures in accordance with the procedures given in this course and documented the treatment on a U.S. Field Medical Card or Tactical Combat Casualty Care Card, as appropriate. Prepare and transmit a request for medical evacuation. Given a writing instrument, a MEDEVAC worksheet, needed information, and a transmitting device. Prepared a MEDEVAC request in correct format and transmitted the request following the rules for proper transmission. Transport a casualty. Given a casualty in need of evacuation, drag equipment (such as a Dragon Harness or SLICK litter), a SKED litter, a Talon litter, materials for improvising a litter (if used), and assistant(s) (if needed). Prepared the SKED litter, Talon litter, improvised litter, or other equipment (if used) and evacuated the casualty using a drag, manual carry, or litter in accordance with the procedures given in this subcourse. Combat Lifesaver * Lesson 1 - INTRODUCTION TO THE COMBAT LIFESAVER AND TACTICAL COMBAT CASUALTY CARE * Lesson 2 - CARE UNDER FIRE * Lesson 3 - TACTICAL FIELD CARE * Lesson 4 - CONTROLLING BLEEDING * Lesson 5 - OPENING AND MANAGING A CASUALTY'S AIRWAY * Lesson 6 - TREATING PENETRATING CHEST TRAUMA * Lesson 7 - INITIATING A FIELD MEDICAL CARD OR TCCC CARD * Lesson 8 - REQUESTING MEDICAL EVACUATION * Lesson 9 - TACTICAL CASUALTY MOVEMENT * Lesson 10 - EVACUATING A CASUALTY USING A LITTER * Appendix A - COMBAT LIFESAVER MEDICAL EQUIPMENT SET * Appendix B - HAWES CARRY
Author : Martha K. Lenhart
Publisher : Government Printing Office
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Government publications
ISBN : 9780160913907
"This book is designed to deliver combat casualty care information that will facilitate transition from a continental US or civilian practice to the combat care environment. Establishment of the Joint Theater Trauma System and the Joint Theater Trauma Registry, coupled with the efforts of the authors, has resulted in the creation of the most comprehensive, evidence-based depiction of the latest advances in combat casualty care. Lessons learned in Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) have been fortified with evidence-based recommendations to improve casualty care. The educational curriculum was designed overall to address the leading causes of preventable death and disability in OEF and OIF. Specifically, the generalist combat casualty care provider is presented requisite information for optimal cae of US combat casualties in the first 72 to 96 hours after injury. The specialist provider is afforded similiar information, supplemented by lessons learned for definitive care of host nation patients."--
Author : William W. Hurd
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 27,77 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0387986049
The definitive treatment on the medical evacuation and management of injured patients in both peace- and wartime. Edited by eminent experts in the field, this text brings together medical specialists from all four branches of the armed services. It discusses the history of aeromedical evacuation, triage and staging of the injured patient, evacuation from site of injury to medical facility, air-frame capabilities, medical capabilities in-flight, response to in-flight emergencies, and mass emergency evacuation. Specific medical conditions are addressed in detail, including such general surgical casualties as abdominal wounds and soft tissue, vascular, maxillofacial, head and spinal cord injuries, ophthalmologic, orthopaedic, pediatric, obstetric-gynecologic casualties, burns, and more. Over 80 illustrations provide a review of transport equipment and both medical and surgical treatment. A must-have reference for all armed forced physicians and flight surgeons, for general and trauma surgeons, internists, intensive care specialists, orthopaedic surgeons, and public health service physicians.
Author : Eldar Soreide
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 26,86 MB
Release : 2001-07-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0824741781
Comprehensive in scope and content, Prehospital Trauma Care (PTC) covers all aspects of emergency medicine-triage assessment and treatment, anesthesia, intensive care, psychiatry, health and military disasters, burns, shock, and surgery. Written by over 70 distinguished international experts representing Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Den
Author : Christos Giannou
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 25,45 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Amputees
ISBN :
Accompanying CD-ROM contains graphic footage of various war wound surgeries.
Author : Nate Palin
Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 2020-09
Category : Exercise
ISBN : 1492598682
Preparing for the Army Combat Fitness Test is the ideal resource to help new recruits and active duty soldiers train for the Army's physical assessment of combat readiness.
Author : Melony E. Sorbero
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9780833078049
The Army Medical Department uses the Professional Filler System (PROFIS) to manage the deployment of health care professionals and their assignment to military treatment facilities when not deployed. This report describes the functionality of PROFIS in the current operating environment of ongoing deployments and assesses potential modifications and improvements to the system.
