Trauma Care

What EMS Can Learn from Trauma Care on the Battlefield

  • A Boston victim gets a makeshift tourniquet.

  • Frank Butler, MD

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Civilian medics have some skills that translate readily to the battlefield environment, but in other ways they’re from a different world. Preparing them for the theater of combat is the goal of the NAEMT’s Tactical Combat Casualty Care course. Building bridges over the gaps between military and civilian trauma care is more important now than ever. America is still well involved overseas, and as the Boston Marathon bombing demonstrated, the wars of the world can come to our streets too...
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