Medical support to deployed field forces is increasingly becoming a shared responsibility
among allied nations. National military medical planners face several key challenges …

Global Combat Damage-Control Surgery Damage-control surgery is well established in
civilian trauma centers and is described as the trilogy of abbreviated operation, intensive …

Minimizing preventable death continues to be a primary focus of the combat casualty care
research community, and of the Army Medical Department as a whole. Toward that end …

Background: While combat casualty care shares many key concepts with civilian trauma
systems, its unique features mandate certain practices that are distinct from the civilian ones …

The United States has achieved unprecedented survival rates (as high as 98%) for
casualties arriving alive to the combat hospital. Official briefings, informal communications …

Role I battlefield medical care is care provided in the prehospital environment outside of the
forward surgical team and the combat support hospital. It includes aid delivered from the …

The far-forward surgical capabilities of the army and navy, in conjunction with the marines,
are already tuned to minimalistic, effective interventions. The critical care air transport teams …

The figure on the cover of this issue of the Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
illustrates concluding casualty statistics from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. While various …

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) categorizes combat casualty care facilities
according to their capabilities. Role 1 (R1) is the most basic and delivers primary care and …

As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan end, the US military has begun to transition to the multi-
domain operations concept with preparation for large scale combat operations against a …