Forward Surgical Team (FST) workload in a special operations environment: The 250th FST in Operation ENDURING FREEDOM

Current Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 418-422

  Place, Ronald J ^a   Rush Jr , Robert M ^a   Arrington, Edward D ^a  

^a Comb Joint Special Oper Task Force ^*  (Afghanistan)

Author keywords

Evacuation times; Forward Surgical Team; Mechanism of injury; Operation ENDURING FREEDOM; Special Forces

Indexed keywords

APPENDICITIS; ARMY; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MILITARY MEDICINE; OPERATION DURATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT CARE; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNITED STATES; WORKLOAD;

AFGHANISTAN; BLAST INJURIES; EVALUATION STUDIES; HOSPITALS, MILITARY; HOSPITALS, PACKAGED; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MILITARY MEDICINE; ORTHOPEDICS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGERY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; WAR; WOUNDS, GUNSHOT;

EID: 0038010108     PISSN: 01497944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0149-7944(02)00718-3     Document Type: Article

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