Naval Support Activity Hospital, Danang, Combat casualty study.

Naval Support Activity Hospital, Danang, casualty blood utilization: January to June 1968.

Casualty rates among naval forces ashore.

Casualty rates for naval forces ashore across varying battle intensities are needed as input to medical and manpower planning models. Casualty data of medical and construction battalions participating in World War II amphibious assaults, Korea, and Vietnam were extracted from archival sources. Casualty rates among naval ashore forces fluctuated with battle intensity. The rate during intense com...

Tactical combat casualty care 2007: evolving concepts and battlefield experience.

The Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) project begun by the Naval Special Warfare Command and continued by the U.S. Special Operations Command developed a set of tactically appropriate battlefield trauma care guidelines that were initially published in 1996. Transition of these guidelines into use throughout the Department of Defense has been ongoing since that time. The need for updates to t...

Naval casualty management training using human patient simulators

BACKGROUND Extended-evacuation or austere environments (e.g. naval, immature or depleted combat zones) are characterized by the lack of resources to facilitate medical evacuation in the "Golden Hour" from moment of injury. This may require the primary caregiver, often a relatively inexperienced general physician or EMT, to administer extended medical care in the field. We describe the Shipboard...

Predicting resource needs for multiple and mass casualty events in combat: lessons learned from combat support hospital experience in Operation Iraqi Freedom.

OBJECTIVE We hypothesized that the number of evacuated casualties from a combat-related multiple casualty event provides an initial baseline estimate of the number of blood products required for the event. METHODS A retrospective review of combat support hospitals' experiences in Operation Iraqi Freedom was performed, (from December 2003 to December 2004). Identified multiple casualty events ...