Prolonged Field Care: Meeting the Challenges of Extended Battlefield Medicine
Prolonged Field Care (PFC) represents a critical evolution in military medicine, addressing scenarios where evacuation to higher levels of care may be delayed for hours or even days. This approach has become increasingly relevant in modern warfare, where combat operations often occur in austere environments far from traditional medical facilities. In conventional military medicine, the “golden hour” principle emphasizes rapid evacuation to surgical facilities.
What You Should Know About the First Female Simulator Accredited by the Army
This past month, Operative Experience made medical and military history with its groundbreaking and innovative simulator, the Prolonged Casualty Care Female Simulator (PCCS Pro), the first of its kind to be accredited by the U.S. Army. To ensure that women service members receive appropriate and quality medical care in the field, the Army has placed PCCS Pro Female mannequins in all 23 of their Medical Simulation Training Centers (MSTC). These centers provide realistic battlefield and pre-hospital care training for military members.
Lou Oberndorf establishes the Oberndorf Clinical Artificial Intelligence Scholars Award
Last year, OEI Chairman and CEO, Lou Oberndorf established the Oberndorf Clinical Artificial Intelligence Scholars Award at the University of Florida, the college’s first-ever AI-focused award. The award creates an endowed fund that will be disbursed in perpetuity as a monetary prize for second-, third- or fourth-year medical students working on AI-focused team research projects.
Transforming the Simulation Solutions Industry with Never-Before Innovations
OEI’s Tactical Casualty Care Simulators, and OBGYN simulators RealMom, and the C-Celia suite of emergency obstetrics simulators for C-Section, postpartum hemorrhage, and hysterectomy training are the most advanced simulators on the market today.
Trends in Nursing Education and Training
There is a never-ending demand for high-quality patient care. Yet, there continues to be a widening skills gap caused by the early retirement of seasoned healthcare workers. MedPage Today stresses that this shortage is not a novel issue. A paper in Nursing Economics from 2010 estimated that more than 1 million registered nurses would retire from the workforce between 2010 to 2030 and take years of knowledge with them.
Changing landscapes of military conflicts require rethinking of casualty care.
On the battlefield, care providers have what is called a “golden hour’ to apply their life-saving skills at the point of injury before handing off to a fully equipped military field hospital.
Senior Military leadership are warning that future conflicts with near-peer adversaries such as China, Russia, North Korea, Iran and others will create a “tyranny of distance” that will impair the quick evacuation of wounded combatants to a higher level of medical care. This creates a Prolonged Casualty Care (PCC) situation for Service Members.