This week Lynn and I sat down to talk with Dr. Martin and Dr. King to talk about Trauma and Critical Care in the military and domestic theaters. For more information, speaker bios and directions to the forum please click here.
SPEAKER: MATTHEW J. MARTIN, MD, FACS
Trauma Medical Director, Associate Residency Director, Madigan Army
Medical Center, Tacoma, Washington
One of the few benefits of combat operations throughout history has
been the significant advances realized in medical and surgical care of
war casualties. In the current theater of operations in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the United States has successfully projected a modern and
robust system for the evacuation and acute care of wounded soldiers and
civilians. This has been coupled with a research and administrative
infrastructure capable of real-time data collection, analysis, and
feedback to implement continuous quality-improvement measures at all
levels of care. This presentation will focus on two of the most
pressing current issues in early combat casualty care: 1) The
collection and transmission forward of prehospital medical data, and 2)
New approaches to the early management of the bleeding patient... read more...
SPEAKER: DAVID KING, MD, MAJ, MC, USAR
Attending Trauma Surgeon, Attending Emergency General Surgeon, Attending Intensive Care Surgeon and
Clinical Instructor in Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Surgical care of combat casualties remains extremely challenging. Often, complex non-standard operative interventions are carried out at far-forward low-echelon units in order to preserve life and limb. Paper medical records are commonly and routinely lost during multiple aero-medical transports within theater. Currently, there is no reliable effective mechanism in place to transmit critical patient care information as patients are evacuated through the lower levels of the military medical system. It is common for a patient to undergo multiple unnecessary operations, interventions, and imaging studies for lack of available historical clinical information. A new medical data collection system must be created which is reliable, reusable, and intrinsic to the patient, such that separation is exceedingly unlikely or impossible... read more...
And we'll see you at the forum!
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