Military–Civilian Collaboration in Trauma Care and the Senior Visiting Surgeon Program
Ernest E. Moore, M.D., M. Margaret Knudson, M.D., C. William Schwab, M.D., Donald D. Trunkey, M.D., Jay A. Johannigman, M.D., and John B. Holcomb, M.D.
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On June 14, 2006, the Institute of Medicine released a three-partreport on the future of emergency care, underscoring the evolvingcrisis in access to urgent medical care in the United States.1The clear threat of future terrorist activity and recent experiencewith natural disasters highlight the need to develop a comprehensiveresponse system based on the integration of civilian and militaryresources.2,3,4,5 Collaboration between civilian and militarysurgeons during times of war is evident throughout our history,and civilian surgeons have provided surgical care to the woundedsince the Revolutionary War. Many observations during timesof intense conflict translated . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Landstuhl Regional Medical Center
Participation of the Senior Visiting Surgeons
Integrating Civilian and Military Resources for Disaster Response
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From the Departments of Surgery at the Denver Health Medical Center, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver (E.E.M.); the San Francisco General Hospital, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco (M.M.K.); the University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati (C.W.S.); the Oregon Health Sciences Center, Portland (D.D.T.); the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia (J.A.J.); and the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, TX (J.B.H.).
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