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Even the military is coming around to this needing to be changed.
Golden Hour
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The end of the 'Golden Hour' and the transformation of U.S. military combat medicine
How the medics of the U.S. military will need to move the injured faster in future wars, or care for them on the battlefield for much longer.
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No 'golden hour'? How Army medicine is changing for the next war
On battlefields of the future, medics may need to treat the wounded for 72 to 96 hours, say Army leaders with an eye on Ukraine.
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Death Ignores theGolden HourThe Argument for Mobile,Farther-Forward Surgery
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Really interesting video; I'm very out of the loop on the TCCC stuff.
Synthetic blood substitutes have been looked at for many years and would clearly be a game changer for some battlefield patients, but many casualties would still require early damage control surgery which realistically will never be available on a consistent basis without evac. There just aren't nearly enough trauma surgeons to embed at the platoon or even company level. I have serious doubts about the utility or practicality of automated nerve block devices on the battlefield - it seems to me that updated pharmacologic approaches to pain management are far more practical and versatile in the field.
Synthetic blood substitutes have been looked at for many years and would clearly be a game changer for some battlefield patients, but many casualties would still require early damage control surgery which realistically will never be available on a consistent basis without evac. There just aren't nearly enough trauma surgeons to embed at the platoon or even company level. I have serious doubts about the utility or practicality of automated nerve block devices on the battlefield - it seems to me that updated pharmacologic approaches to pain management are far more practical and versatile in the field.