Mobile Trauma Bay
A Mobile Trauma Bay (MTB) is a containerized ambulance bay mounted on a Logistics Vehicle System Replacement LVSR. [1] [2] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4AUTWcAhpo)
The MTB consists of state-of-the-art medical equipment and carries one doctor, a nurse and three corpsmen who provide advanced resuscitative care to critically-injured service members within the first hour after a traumatic injury ("The Golden Hour"). It affords the capability to take emergency medical care farther forward, saving more lives.[3] [4] More than 98% of the wounded Marines who make it into the MTB, make it out alive. [5]
The MTB was developed and deployed by James L. Hancock in 2008. [6] IFrom the time it was proposed to the time it was deployed there were 914 concept drawings over a period of four months.
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References
- ^ Chris Lawrence, CNN Pentagon Correspondence, “An Armored Emergency Room Doesn't Have to Wait for the Wounded.” CNN, April 12, 2010, accessed Septemebe.12, 2013, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1004/12/cnr.02.html
- ^ Col. Oliver North, "Report From a Forgotten War: Second in a Series," FoxNews.com, August 14, 2008, accessed September 12, 2013, http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/war-stories/2008/08/14/report-forgotten-war-second-series"
- ^ Lance Cpl. Khoa Pelczar, "Mobile Trauma Bay Brings Medical Care Closer to Battlefield," 1st Marine Logistics Group, May 1, 2010, accessed September 15, 2013, http://www.1stmlg.marines.mil/News/NewsArticleDisplay/tabid/8628/Article/96985/mobile-trauma-bay-brings-medical-care-closer-to-battlefield.aspx
- ^ “ShockTrauma Platoon Extends Golden Hour For Marines,”America’s North Shore Journal, October 14, 2008, accessed August 24, 2013, http://northshorejournal.org/shock-trauma-platoon-extends-golden-hour-for-marines.
- ^ Ben Roberts, “Special Report: Rolling Warfront E-R,” WALB News 10, May 2, 2011, accessed August 28, 2013, http://www.walb.com/story/14554234/special-report-albanys-warfront-e-r
- ^ CAPT James L Hancock, Deputy Commander, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth," Navy Medicine. United States Navy. Accessed August 24, 2013. http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmcp/CommandInfo/Pages/XO.aspx
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