Aspects of military prehospital care
Ryan Wood
Friday, February 4, 2011
The military prehospital care experience has adapted civilian practice to reflect the nature of injuries sustained in recent conflicts. The main adaptations stem from differences in the mechanism of injury, clinical timelines and personnel. The large number of blast injuries and resulting extremity trauma means that an emphasis is placed on the control of catastrophic haemorrhage using a number of novel haemostatic strategies. This paradigm of <C>ABC is now universally followed and differs from civilian practice in a number of other ways— particularly in the management of C-spine, airway, chest injuries and circulatory access. This review highlights these differences in practice and outlines military techniques and protocols. It also emphasizes those areas in which civilian practice has borrowed from its military counterparts and successfully employed their techniques. This may become more relevant in the modern, post-September 11th era, in which urban mass casualty incidents are no longer a fictional fear.
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