Improving Combat Casualty Care and Field Medicine: Focus on the Military Medic

Military medical revolution: prehospital combat casualty care.

Military Revolutions Murray and Knox equated military revolutions to ‘‘earthquakes.’’ These earthquakes forced a fundamental change in society and a state, and the state consequently altered the way it created and projected military power. Murray and Knox recognize five major military revolutions that have had that impact on Western history: the 17th century creation of the modern state and mod...

Tactical combat casualty care.

Understanding combat casualty care statistics.

Maintaining good hospital records during military conflicts can provide medical personnel and researchers with feedback to rapidly adjust treatment strategies and improve outcomes. But to convert the resulting raw data into meaningful conclusions requires clear terminology and well thought out equations, utilizing consistent numerators and denominators. Our objective was to arrive at terminolog...

The combat casualty care special edition.

Corresponding Author: Colonel TJ Hodgetts QHP Honorary Professor of Emergency Medicine Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine Institute of Research and Development, Vincent Drive, Birmingham B15 2SQ T: +44 121 415 8848 E: [email protected] ABC, DCR, DCS, RSI, MERT, MERT-Enhanced, 1:1, IRT, JTTR these contemporary abbreviations are increasingly used in conversations regar...

Died of wounds on the battlefield: causation and implications for improving combat casualty care.

BACKGROUND Understanding the epidemiology of death after battlefield injury is vital to combat casualty care performance improvement. The current analysis was undertaken to develop a comprehensive perspective of deaths that occurred after casualties reached a medical treatment facility. METHODS Battle injury died of wounds (DOW) deaths that occurred after casualties reached a medical treatmen...