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Military Casualty Evacuation: MEDEVAC

2019
Steven G Schauer   +2 more
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EVACUATION AND CARE OF CASUALTIES IN AIRCRAFT

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1953
The most pressing problem facing the nation today is the maintenance of adequate defense forces for security within the national economy. In order to reach this goal, we must examine the usefulness of new ideas from all fields of activity. Throughout the ages, we have seen that both the strategy of warfare and the progress of civilization in peacetime ...
M S, WHITE, R W, MERKLE
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Pharmacotherapy for Recently Evacuated Military Casualties

Military Medicine, 1993
In late 1990 during the massive Operation Desert Shield/Storm (ODS) deployment of United Nations troops, the VA/DoD Joint Contingency Plan was activated. Worst case scenarios projected tens of thousands of medical evacuees from the Persian Gulf and predicted that U.S. Military Communication Zone and CONUS bed capacity would quickly be saturated.
M J, Friedman   +2 more
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Reconsidering Policy of Casualty Evacuation in a Remote Mass-Casualty Incident

Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 2013
AbstractObjectivesInappropriate distribution of casualties in mass-casualty incidents (MCIs) may overwhelm hospitals. This study aimed to review the consequences of evacuating casualties from a bus accident to a single peripheral hospital and lessons learned regarding policy of casualty evacuation.MethodsMedical records of all casualties relating to ...
Bruria, Adini   +7 more
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Resolving the casualty evacuation conflict

Injury, 1993
One of the most contentious issues surrounding the prehospital management of the injured is the decision to stabilize on site or to rapidly evacuate the patient. Although there are vociferous proponents for both views, there appears to be little thought given to the rationalization of these decisions, and the subject has only merited lip-service in ...
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Casualties on Everest—an evacuation problem

Injury, 1986
A recent attempt to climb Mount Everest was foiled due to avalanche. This incident resulted in five casualties occurring at 21,000 ft (6,400 m) above sea level and 400 miles (643 km) from the nearest hospital. The problems encountered in their resuscitation and evacuation are discussed and recommendations made to avoid similar difficulties in the ...
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