The development and advancement of trauma care has shown stepwise improvements for
centuries owing to the interrelationship of civilian and military medical systems. With respect …

Timely intervention and access to a trauma center has been shown to decrease death and
disability after major injury. 1 The need for early, on-scene treatment and access into the …

Background: Prior to the onset of hostilities in Afghanistan, there had been very few
significant advances in battlefield trauma care for the last 125 years. In 1996, the original …

Iwould like to thank the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma and President Cryer
for the opportunity to deliver the 2004 Fitts Lecture. When Dr. Cryer asked me to deliver this …

BACKGROUND The US military did not go off to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with a
trauma system in place, but by necessity, an extremely effective system was developed by …

Global Combat Damage-Control Surgery Damage-control surgery is well established in
civilian trauma centers and is described as the trilogy of abbreviated operation, intensive …

Background: Medical lessons learned from Vietnam and previous military conflicts led to the
development of civilian trauma systems in the United States. Operation Iraqi Freedom …

During the past century, wartime surgical experience and military medical research,
principally that conducted in the US Army Medical Corps and the US Navy Bureau of …

INTRODUCTION: The US military forces developed and implemented the Joint Theater
Trauma System (JTTS) and Joint Theater Trauma Registry (JTTR) using US civilian trauma …

While the prior two decades of counterinsurgency operations in the Middle East have
resulted in critical advances in battlefield medicine with the lowest case fatality rate in …