En Route Care Research Center Evidence to Guide Practice: Prehospital Interventions Performed in Afghanistan between November 2009 and March 2014

Abstract

Care provided to a casualty in the prehospital combat setting can influence subsequent medical interactions and patient outcomes. Both historical and recent published data reveal that most combat related deaths occur in the prehospital setting before the casualty reaches a surgical facility. A key component of combat casualty care performance improvement includes evaluating prehospital medical performance, particularly in the combat setting. This requires data regarding the interventions performed, the assessment of whether the intervention was performed correctly, and the determination if there was a missed opportunity to perform an intervention in the field.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 31, 2019
Accession Number
AD1068046

Entities

People

  • Joseph K Maddry

Organizations

  • 59th Medical Wing

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Afghanistan
  • Air Force
  • Airway Management
  • Availability
  • Casualties
  • Chest Tubes
  • Classification
  • Combat Casualty Care
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Hemorrhage
  • Hypothermia
  • Intervention
  • Monitoring
  • Security
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Facility/Structural Engineering.
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense
  • Systems Analysis and Design