Variability of Value of Trauma Centers to General Surgery Combat Casualty Care Skill Sustainment

Combat trauma training for current casualty care.

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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 symbiosis of combat casualty care and civilian trauma care: 1914-2007.

During the past century, wartime surgical experience and military medical research, principally that conducted in the U.S. Army Medical Corps and the U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine during both war and peace, have combined to improve combat casualty care. Many of those advances have had direct application to civilian trauma care. Conversely, advances in technology and patient care in the civilian ...

Implications of combat casualty care for mass casualty events.

Violence fromexplosivesand firearms results inmass casualty events inwhich the injured havemultiple penetrating and soft tissue injuries. Events such as those in Boston,Massachusetts;Newtown,Connecticut;andAurora, Colorado, as well as those in other locations, such as Europe and the Middle East, demonstrate that civilian trauma may at times resemble that seen in a combat setting. As the civilia...