Core Enroute Care R&D - Aerospace Medicine/Human Performance Focus (AF)
Abstract
This project area seeks to advance aeromedical evacuation (AE), Critical Care Air Transport Team (CCATT), and Tactical Critical Care Evacuation Team (TCCET) capabilities through the research and development of rapid, more efficient, and safer patient transport from the pre-staging for strategic or intra-theater air evacuation to definitive care, and to understand the effects of transport on injured war fighters. Efforts will focus on translating technological advancements and groundbreaking clinical research into translatable practice and technology products. The sub-project areas include: Physiological Effects of Aeromedical Evacuation on patients and crew which includes the optimization of provider performance and patient care, impact of transport times on En-Route Trauma and Resuscitative Care, and En-Route Patient Safety which includes technology advances and assessment. Because patients experience multiple handoffs between teams of caregivers during transport between austere environments and definitive care, efforts in this the En-Route Patient Safety sub-project area will examine human factors considerations in en-route patient safety in order to develop new and enhance existing methods to mitigate risk in all en-route care environments.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2016
- Source ID
- ae9ca4d49fb923cc4182a2f1ebfba93a