TY - JOUR
T1 - The thin red line
T2 - Blood planning factors and the enduring need for a robust military blood system to support combat operations
AU - Gurney, Jennifer M.
AU - Cap, Andrew P.
AU - Holcomb, John B.
AU - Staudt, Amanda M.
AU - Tadlock, Matthew D.
AU - Polk, Travis M.
AU - Davis, Crystal
AU - Corley, Jason B.
AU - Schreiber, Martin A.
AU - Beckett, Andrew
AU - Spott, Mary Ann
AU - Shackelford, Stacy A.
AU - Van Gent, Jan Michael
AU - Stallings, Jonathan D.
AU - Martin, Matthew J.
AU - Riggs, Leslie E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2024/8/1
Y1 - 2024/8/1
N2 - Battlefield lessons learned are forgotten; the current name for this is the Walker Dip. Blood transfusion and the need for a Department of Defense Blood Program are lessons that have cycled through being learned during wartime, forgotten, and then relearned during the next war. The military will always need a blood program to support combat and contingency operations. Also, blood supply to the battlefield has planning factors that have been consistent over a century. In 2024, it is imperative that we codify these lessons learned. The linchpins of modern combat casualty care are optimal prehospital care, early whole blood transfusion, and forward surgical care. This current opinion comprised of authors from all three military Services, the Joint Trauma System, the Armed Services Blood Program, blood SMEs and the CCC Research Program discuss two vital necessities for a successful military trauma system: (1) the need for an Armed Services Blood Program and (2) Planning factors for current and future deployed military ere is no effective care for wounded soldiers, and by extension there is no effective military medicine.
AB - Battlefield lessons learned are forgotten; the current name for this is the Walker Dip. Blood transfusion and the need for a Department of Defense Blood Program are lessons that have cycled through being learned during wartime, forgotten, and then relearned during the next war. The military will always need a blood program to support combat and contingency operations. Also, blood supply to the battlefield has planning factors that have been consistent over a century. In 2024, it is imperative that we codify these lessons learned. The linchpins of modern combat casualty care are optimal prehospital care, early whole blood transfusion, and forward surgical care. This current opinion comprised of authors from all three military Services, the Joint Trauma System, the Armed Services Blood Program, blood SMEs and the CCC Research Program discuss two vital necessities for a successful military trauma system: (1) the need for an Armed Services Blood Program and (2) Planning factors for current and future deployed military ere is no effective care for wounded soldiers, and by extension there is no effective military medicine.
KW - ASBP
KW - Blood
KW - Combat Casualty Care
KW - Trauma
KW - Wartime blood supply
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85199005915&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1097/TA.0000000000004413
DO - 10.1097/TA.0000000000004413
M3 - Article
C2 - 38996415
AN - SCOPUS:85199005915
SN - 2163-0755
VL - 97
SP - S31-S36
JO - Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
JF - Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
IS - 2
ER -