On a busy Baghdad bridge spanning the great Tigris River coursing through Iraq from north to south, a crowd of people intermingled in their bidirectional flow. Most were hurrying to and from the nearby market on the east side of…
Mass casualties due to combat operations, or natural or manmade disasters, have the capacity to overwhelm multiple levels of care and evacuation capabilities of any system. Military and civilian institutions need a mass casualty response plan in order to facilitate…
Throughout history, wars have resulted in the development of medical care techniques that have been later adopted successfully in civilian trauma. Colombia as a whole has been involved since the early 1960s in nonconventional warfare fueled by the cocaine drug…
Modern trauma care consists of three primary components: prehospital care, acute surgical care or hospital care, and rehabilitation. Ideally, a society, through state (department, province, regional, etc.) government, should provide a trauma system that ensures all three components. The purpose…