Five years of prolonged field care: prehospital challenges during recent French military operations.

Stéphane TraversCyril CarfantanAntoine LuftLuc AiglePierre PasquierChristophe MartinaudAurelien RenardOlivier DubourgClement DerkenneRomain KedzierewiczMarilyn FranchinChristian BayAndrew P CapSylvain Ausset

Published in: Transfusion (2019)

Main challenges identified include reducing evacuation times as much as possible, preserving ground deployment of sufficiently trained medics and medical teams, optimization of transfusion strategies, and strengthening specific prolonged field care equipment and training.

Keyphrases

healthcare
palliative care
quality improvement
cardiac surgery
posttraumatic stress disorder
high intensity