News From the Cause
From the Lab to the Battlefield: (MIL HEALTH SYS)
June 10, 2009
With over 120,000 soldiers deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan, undoubtedly someone will suffer an injury therefore, medical solutions have to be effective, there's no place for faulty products. The Army has documented that the survival rate in ongoing conflicts is over 90%, the highest recorded in modern combat. This survival rate is the product of numerous innovations such as improvements in protective equipment, improvements in evacuation, improvements in the training of combat medics, and innovations in the medical equipment and techniques available at all levels of care from self/buddy aid, through field care given by medics and into hospital care delivered in theater and in the U.S. [click here to view] (http://www.health.mil/Press/Release.aspx?ID=746)
