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Let's jump right in. No one wants to be in a prolonged care situation. It is a contingency like a MASCAL. Maybe even a subset of a MASCAL: Being overwhelmed with the complexity and severity of a single, critically ill or injured patient vs being overwhelmed by many patients. A...

The vast majority of SOF deployments occur outside combat zones where the SOF Medic is expected to care for the entire team without a credentialed provider. Faced with a low level of risk, Commanders opt to accept it. The team also willingly accepts it due to the confidence ...

No. Medics and Corpsmen have not always done Prolonged Field Care or Prolonged Casualty Care. While it is true that combat medical providers have always taken care of patients for longer than anticipated, we did not have a set of dedicated principles on which to fall back...

Dennis had the honor of interviewing Dr. John Quinn who’s on the ground working Role 1 medical operations for an NGO somewhere in Ukraine. The lessons being learned by John […]

The Joint Trauma System and Defense Committees on Trauma are made up of several committees including the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC), the Committee on EnRoute Combat Casualty Care (CoERCCC) and the Committee on Surgical Combat C...

From tourniquets to chest seals, our community has been at the forefront of innovating, problem solving and improvising when not able to get a commercially tested and manufactured device. A purpose-made, evidence-based solution should always be primary in the PACE plan. Afte...

The wait is over... The Role 1 Prolonged Casualty Care Guidelines for the entire DoD are now available here and on the Joint Trauma System website! This was a monumental undertaking from the beginning

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This is not a novel procedure. The first successful autotransfusion on record was conducted in 1818 by James Blundell on a patient suffering from postpartum hemorrhage. Through the end of the 1800s and into the early 1900s, surgeons utilized this technique with surprising success

Hot weather injuries are an issue medics have to account for even when not deployed. Proper planning, recognition and treatment can greatly reduce frequency and severity of these patients and […]