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FROM THE WAR ZONE TO THE UNITED STATES Previous Volume 351:2476-2480 December 9, 2004 Number 24 Next

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View larger version (30K): [in this window] [in a new window]   274th Forward Surgical Team (FST) loaded into six Humvees with trailers in Iraq.

 
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View larger version (48K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Chemical and biologic protective shelter, which can be inflated in 15 minutes and used as an operating room.

 
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View larger version (107K): [in this window] [in a new window]   General surgery backpack and anesthesia backpack, two of the five packs containing the rapid-response surgical system.

 
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View larger version (85K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Typical FST operating room in a "drash" tent with two portable tables.

 
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View larger version (34K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Radiograph of mangled leg from blast injury.

 
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View larger version (73K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Typical large-fragment wound of the leg.

 
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From the Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.

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