Military Medical Skills Readiness in Combat: Advanced Trauma Life Support Performance Efficiency at Afghanistan Role 3 Hospitals

Abstract

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Objective Military Trauma Team Performance Improvement from Military-Civilian Partnerships

“…1 In addition, with such a focus on outpatient and elective medicine at most military treatment facilities, trauma skills may never be learned, and this fact likely contributes to the military's trauma inefficiency compared with civilian peers. 2 In an effort to combat skill absence and degradation, military training platforms such as C-STARS, Emergency War Surgery, and others exist to keep military personnel ready even without any objective evidence to support these claims.…”

“…Also, the average student starting efficiency of 262 seconds suggests the simulated environment allows for much more efficiency when compared with the deployed setting (505.6 seconds) and a civilian trauma center (404 seconds). 2 Conditions that impact real-world trauma performance need investigating and should be included in simulations. We suspect factors related to simulated complete exposure of our live models and the knowledge that no procedures will be performed on a living model impact the speed, but other unforeseen factors should be investigated.…”

Self-Efficacy Improvement for Performance of Trauma-Related Skills due to a Military-Civilian Partnership

“…Some data already exist, showing that military personnel, as teams, are not as efficient as their civilian counterparts. 1 To prepare military personnel, institutions such as the Center for the Sustainment of Trauma and Readiness Skills (C-STARS) exist at high-volume civilian trauma centers throughout the country. Through a mixture of simulation and clinical work, assessment of the educational benefits of trauma training is possible.…”