Review of a Role 2 in Afghanistan: Understanding the Data on Medical and Surgical Volumes in a Deployed Setting.

Military Medicine
Carly R N RichardsJon F Dickens

Abstract

The U.S. forward military surgical assets have deployed throughout the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters of operations to maintain surgical support for injured service members in compliance with the "golden hour" as specified in the Gates Memorandum. The support of evacuation times of less than 60 minutes to a surgical capability has resulted in smaller surgical teams being deployed to an increased number of locations. Over the last 5 years, the combat trauma patient encounters have decreased. Although some Role 2 medical treatment facilities (MTFs) maintain a medical mission, most of them are set up to provide trauma care. The largest and busiest Role 2 MTF is located near Kabul and serves the NATO population. The aims of this review are to examine the epidemiological data of the largest Role 2 MTF in theater, to examine damage control surgical capability optimization in a facility with a largely medical mission, and to analyze what this may mean in the context of surgical skill atrophy. As part of a performance improvement project, a retrospective review of prospectively collected data at the Hamid Karzai NATO Role 2 MTF was conducted. Four years of clinical and epidemiological data were reviewed. Independent source verification ...Continue Reading

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