A small team surrounded in a compound, active firefight, helicopter attempting MEDEVAC inside the walls but blades strike the building, TCCC, Prolonged Field Care, blood transfusions, 6 attempts at converting a tourniquet over 17 hours…
The following is a letter from Sean sent out on our big email list. If you’re not on the list don’t worry because it is posted here in it’s entirety. The letter highlights what we have done over the last year and, more importantly, what we have planned for the year to come, specifically a whole day of Prolonged Field Care specific training
Here is an issue that has come up more than once over the past year. It sparked good discussion with some great points that we will attempt to repopulate in the comment section:
Here’s a podcast we recorded last year. There are some key points in this that we cover in overview lectures, and continue to teach medics individually, about what we refer to as “phoning a friend.”
The U.S. Institute Of Surgical Research Joint Trauma Service and PFC Working Group need your help:
The JTS is working to conduct a retrospective case review relating to PFC in order to conduct an aggregate analysis.
We are currently collecting as many cases as we can obtain relating to prolonged role 1 care (anything greater than 4 hours) both trauma and non-trauma. We are accepting unclassified AAR’s, medical records, powerpoint summaries from meeting presentations, or even just personal memory/war stories. If the medic is available, we would like to interview them if possible. As there is really no database of such cases, many of the cases will be identified by word of mouth, although we are also searching the trauma registry, SOMA and SOCMSSC databases.
The results of our analysis will include the epidemiology of PFC cases and aggregate lessons learned. The report will be returned to the PFC working group and operational communities and published (likely in JSOM).
Thank you for any assistance you can provide to help identify these cases and the medics who provided such care. Cases may be submitted to usarmy.jbsa.medcom-aisr.list.jts-prehospital@mail.mil
Click here to download the AAR Form
