Abstract Background: Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) guidelines regarding
prehospital analgesia agents have evolved. The guidelines stopped recommending …

Background: Combat injuries result in acute, severe pain. Early use of analgesia after injury
is known to be beneficial. Studies on prehospital analgesia in combat are limited and no …

Background: Published data on prehospital medical care in combat is limited, likely due to
the chaotic and unpredictable nature of care under fire and difficulty in documentation There …

Although the majority of potentially preventable fatalities among US combat forces serving in
Afghanistan and Iraq have died from hemorrhagic shock, the majority of US medics carry …

Background Servicemembers injured in combat often experience moderate to severe acute
pain. Early and effective pain control in the prehospital setting has been shown to reduce the …

We report the results of a process improvement initiative to examine the current use and
safety of prehospital pain medications by US Forces in Afghanistan. Prehospital pain …

Background. The management of acute traumatic pain is a crucial component of prehospital
care and yet the assessment and administration of analgesia is highly variable, frequently …

Aim To determine clinical opinion of effectiveness of current battlefield analgesia and the
realistic options to improve future analgesia in hostile environments. Methods Structured …

BACKGROUND Early pain treatment following injury has been shown to improve long-term
outcomes, while untreated pain can facilitate higher posttraumatic stress disorder rates and …

BACKGROUND Acute pain, resulting from trauma and other causes, is a common condition
that imposes a need for prehospital analgesia on and off the battlefield. The narcotic most …