U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Combat Trauma Registry Operation Iraqi Freedom-1 Preliminary Findings

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Head, Face, and Neck Injuries During Operation Iraqi Freedom II: Results From the US Navy and Marine Corps Combat Trauma Registry

“…These findings are consistent with previous research from OIF-I indicating that motor vehicle crashes cause the majority of nonbattle injuries during hostile action, 11 and result in the highest number of nonbattle injury admissions. 7 These prior assessments also indicate that falls have been a notable cause of nonbattle injuries and nonbattle injury admissions, which included injuries from all anatomical locations.…”

Statistical Modeling of Combat Mortality Events by Using Subject Matter Expert Opinions and Operation Iraqi Freedom Empirical Results from the Navy-Marine Corps Combat Trauma Registry

“…The NMC CTR is a data warehouse composed of data sets describing events that occur to individual casualties, from the POI through the medical chain of evacuation and on to long-term rehabilitative outcomes. 9 The CTR can assist medical planners, systems analysts, and logisticians in planning for the random occurrence of injury types in treatment and evacuation scenarios of interest. These data sets provide the empirical means to confirm or augment medical logistics modeling assumptions to better quantify the optimal mix of health-care facilities and providers, medical equipment and supplies, and transportation assets affecting battlefield medical delivery.…”

“…Real-world casualty resuscitative data from the Navy-Marine Corps Combat Trauma Registry Expeditionary Medical Encounter Databases (NMC CTR EMED) on OIF injuries are used to examine the efficacy of confirming and/or supplementing the panel results with a time-based mortality analysis. 9 The analysis file available covers the period from early 2004 to mid-2006 and contains 1079 injury records deemed to be of a LT nature. 10 While certain results applicable to TML+ were obtained and will be illustrated, several inherent limitations in the NMC CTR data structure preclude a full investigation of battlefield mortality as a function of detailed casualty flow paths and delays in treatment as assumed in TML+.…”

Kriegschirurgische Verletzungsmuster

“…3) konnten durch den Einsatz des Airbus der Luftwaffe innerhalb von 36 h in die beiden Bundeswehrkrankenhäuser Koblenz und Ulm repatriiert werden.Autoren des Navy-Marine Corps stellten fest, dass von allen Evakuierten ca. 25% wegen Erkrankungen und 3,4% aus psychischen Gründen repatriiert werden mussten[18]. Die Analyse der zwischen 2001 und März 2004 in das WRAMC verlegten 3057 Patienten zeigt eine Verteilung von ca.…”