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US Navy’s newest air-to-air missile could tilt balance in South China Sea
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-navys-newest-air-to-air-missile-could-tilt-balance-south-china-sea-2024-08-14/ (U) Air-to-air capabilities of U.S. Navy just went from 93 miles to 250 miles, now outmatching the 155 miles sported by the Chinese PL-15 long-range air-to-air option. (U) The AIM-174B is compatible with U.S. and Australia platforms. (U//PNDG) Lockheed’s… Continue reading
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Chasing The Ideal Resuscitative Fluid for Large Scale Combat Operations
I remember sitting at the Mid-Atlantic Anesthesia Research Conference in the mid-2010s and being absolutely stunned when Dr. Ronald Miller walked through the door to give a keynote speech. This was not a large conference, and to have the literal… Continue reading
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Enhancing Deployed Medical Care with AI and Novel Technologies
The potential for technology like AI, telemedicine, augmented reality, and advanced patient monitors to enhance medical care in deployed, operational, and austere environments is vast but underutilized. While AI could revolutionize casualty care, current examples are limited. Telemedicine and advanced… Continue reading
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The Medical COP
The battlefield is changing. With the rise of Distributed Maritime Operations (DMO) and Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO), traditional medical care models on the battlefield are stretched to their limits. Vast distances, limited resources, and rapidly evolving situations demand a… Continue reading
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Death and Dying on the Future Battlefield
It is clear that future conflicts will be different than those wars of the last two decades. The term Large-Scale Combat Operations (LSCO, pronounced ‘Lihs-Koh’) is used to provide this distinction. The number of killed and wounded casualties, both from… Continue reading
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Whole Blood Transfusion – a primer
Hemorrhage is the leading cause of death in traumatically injured patients, and blood transfusion is a critical component of treatment of these patients (the other major component is stopping the bleed). The concept of blood transfusion had been theorized since… Continue reading
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Book Review: Empire of the Scalpel by Ira Rutkow
Dr. Rutkow does an excellent job chronicling the history and advances of surgery from ancient times to the modern era. His storytelling is excellent and very compelling – not always the case in medical history texts. He has sense of… Continue reading
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Regional anesthesia in resource-limited and disaster environments: a daring discourse
Interesting discussion and concept for the use of regional anesthesia in austere and resource limited (including military operational) environments. Future planning for medical care in Role 2 environments may need “outside-the-box” solutions to optimize future concepts, similar to the discussion… Continue reading
Scalpels & Strategy 