The Spring 2020 issue of Combat & Casualty Care sheds light on DoD-led efforts to combat the COVID-19 pandemic with medical logistics and enhanced field comms among other areas critical to the delivery of today’s tactical combat casualty care (TCCC).
Features include:
- U.S. Army’s Combat Capabilities Development Center-Soldier Center (CCDC-SC) addressing critical shortages in personal protective equipment (PPE) on the front lines Interviews with key personnel including Mr. Jeffrey Pacuska, Integration Program Manager on the Research and Technology Integration Team
- Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) advancing standards of care in casualty treatment and stabilization to lower the incidence of preventable death
- COL Michael Lalor, Commander, U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command (AMLC), Ft. Detrick, MD, on projecting and sustaining capabilities in med materiel sustainment
- Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4) Product Management Office, Health Assessment Lite Operations (HALO) software managing point-of-injury data flow
- Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR), Silver Spring, MD, helping facilitate the transition of brain injury treatments development into field-ready application
- The National Association of Veteran’s Research and Foundations (NAVREF) and the Dept. of Veterans Affairs in ensuring veterans greater access to clinical trials for med apps
- Advances in natural disaster response military-supported tactical combat casualty care (TCCC) delivery and evacuation from a comms, fuel, and command and control perspective
- Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) support in the distribution of critical supplies of repair parts, food, and fuel in the fight against the global spread of COVID-19
- Industry Partner: Deployed Medicine online app uses advantages of mobile learning in delivering the right information to the right audiences at the point of need
