File:Out Of The Crucible- How The US Military Transformed Combat Casualty Care In Iraq And Afghanistan (IA OutOfTheCrucibleHowTheUSMilitaryTransformedCombatCasualtyCareInIraqAndAfghanistan).pdf

senior editors
Arthur L. Kellermann, MD, MPH
Professor of Military and Emergency Medicine and Dean, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Eric Elster, MD
Captain, MC, US Navy
Professor and Chair, USU-Walter Reed Department of Surgery, F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

associate editors
Charles Babington
Principal, WaVe Communications

Racine Harris, MPH
Program Manager, Defense Health Horizons
Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine

During the last decade, the US Military Health System—while caring simultaneously for combatants fighting two wars and for millions of service members, dependents, and military retirees at home—completely transformed its approach to combat casualty care. From the point of injury on the battlefield to rehabilitation and reintegration of wounded warriors into their communities, military innovators rapidly devised, implemented, refined, and spread new techniques and technologies throughout the force. They were able to succeed because the Military Health System was willing to learn from its

failures and build on its successes. Through a mix of keen observation 

and the systematic collection and analysis of data (most notably, creation of the Joint Trauma System), military medicine continually improved. Primarily written by the military providers responsible for innovations in each field, this 44-chapter book documents each of these advances and provides stories of individual service members who benefited from them.