Delivering Forward Surgical Care in the Rapid Force Maneuver Environment: A Challenge to Service Medical Department Innovation and Adaptability

Abstract

Developing better surgical capabilities for conflict operational missions is a continuous effort. The challenge to create lighter more mobile surgical capability is compounded by broad-spectrum and competing demands on constrained resources, and legitimate Service priorities to modernize other combat health support assets such as modular field hospitals and medical/surgical care afloat. Focusing on joint operability in mobile surgical care can minimize fragmentation and redundancy, decrease Service costs, and ultimately result in more efficient support to rapid maneuver forces. This can be accomplished by developing mobile, surgical assets that can interchangeably support multiple tactical fronts and by increasing the level and frequency of combined Service medical integration in joint military evolutions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 03, 2003
Accession Number
ADA415485

Entities

People

  • Roy L. Henderson

Organizations

  • Naval War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Afghanistan Conflict
  • Air Force
  • Combat Support Hospitals
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Medical Evacuation
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Hospitals
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Operations
  • Patient Care
  • Task Forces
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Economics
  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Medical or Health Care Field.