Tactical Combat Casualty Care in the Canadian Forces: lessons learned from the Afghan war
| Autor: | Homer Tien, Nicholas Withers, Erin Savage, Dylan Pannell, Colleen Forestier |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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Canada
Emergency Medical Services Psychological intervention History 21st Century Military medicine Government Agencies Afghan Health care Emergency medical services Humans Medicine Military Medicine Emergency Treatment Afghan Campaign 2001 business.industry Afghanistan History 20th Century Combat casualty medicine.disease War Surgery Military personnel Military Personnel Wounds and Injuries Surgery Medical emergency business |
| Zdroj: | Canadian Journal of Surgery. 54:S118-S123 |
| ISSN: | 0008-428X |
| DOI: | 10.1503/cjs.025011 |
| Popis: | Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) is intended to treat potentially preventable causes of death on the battlefield, but acknowledges that application of these treatments may place the provider and even the mission in jeopardy if performed at the wrong time. Therefore, TCCC classifies the tactical situation with respect to health care provision into 3 phases (care under fire, tactical field care and tactical evacuation) and only permits certain interventions to be performed in specific phases based on the danger to the provider and casualty. In the 6 years that the Canadian Forces (CF) have been involved in sustained combat operations in Kandahar, Afghanistan, more than 1000 CF members have been injured and more than 150 have been killed. As a result, the CF gained substantial experience delivering TCCC to wounded soldiers on the battlefield. The purpose of this paper is to review the principles of TCCC and some of the lessons learned about battlefield trauma care during this conflict. |
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