The MediSim system extends virtual environments (both local and network) to represent simulated medical personnel interacting with simulated casualties. Our technology fosters dual-use applications involving planning, training, and evaluation of both medical corpsmen and civilian EMTs. Behaviors and behavioral control are being developed for the medical corpsmen that will enable their actions o...

BACKGROUND War wounds produce a significant burden on medical facilities in wartime. Workload from the recent conflict was documented in order to guide future medical needs. METHODS All data on war injuries were collected prospectively. This information was supplemented with a review of all patients admitted during the study period. RESULTS During the first 2 weeks of the conflict, the sole...

On the morning of July 1st 1916, after five days of intense bombardment, the British Fourth Army under General Sir Henry Rawlinson, with a ration strength of 519,324 men, supported by two divisions of the Third Army, under General Sir Edward Allenby, advanced into what was to be known hereafter as the first day of the Battle of the Somme. Within the first 60 minutes of that attack, those troops...

At the outbreak of the war, the War Office decided to create specialist units for the treatment and management of certain types of battle injuries. Amongst these was established a number of maxillo-facial surgical units whose primary function was to deal with injuries of the face and jaws. The personnel were trained for these units in the main specialist E.M.S. Units of a similar type in this c...

BACKGROUND Recombinant activated human coagulation factor VII (rFVIIa), an intravascular strategy to promote clotting, is being used as an adjunct to surgical control of bleeding in combat trauma patients. OBJECTIVE To describe the initial experiences with rFVIIa administered to combat casualties at US Navy-Marine Corps medical treatment facilities in Iraq, and to compare survival outcomes of...

Battle casualties are the subject of study in military operations research, which applies mathematical models to quantify probability victory vs. loss. In particular, different approaches have been proposed model course battles. However, none them provide adequate decision-making support for high-level command. To overcome this situation, paper presents an innovative model, uses adaptive and pr...

BACKGROUND The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) coalition forces remain heavily committed on combat operations overseas. Understanding the prevalence and characteristics of battlefield injury of coalition partners is vital to combat casualty care performance improvement. The aim of this systematic review was to evaluate the prevalence and characteristics of battle casualties from NATO ...