Emergency War Surgery NATO Handbook

Figure 1

United States Department of Defense

Figure 1. - Generic organizational diagram for combat casualty care. Width of pathway is proportional to size of casualty populations. Broken line indicates potential for aeromedical evacuation from the field of the critically injured. Triage identifies three groups of casualties: 1) those needing urgent surgery, 2) those likely to have an early return to duty, and 3) those requiring evacuation from the combat zone.

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Operational Medicine 2001

Health Care in Military Settings

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