updates from the Austere Resuscitation and Surgical Care (ARSC). Thursday, November 30 by CAPT Matthew Tadlock and Dr. Dan Mosely

On Thursday, November 30, CAPT Matthew Tadlock and Dr. Dan Mosely will present updates from the Austere Resuscitation and Surgical Care (ARSC) Working Group. The purpose of the ARSC team is to mitigate risk for the Operational Commander by providing surgical and resuscitative care for combat casualties. ARSC teams are smaller and more mobile compared to other conventional surgical assets and have less clinical capability and holding capacity. Limited resources and staffing require that medical decisions are made in the context of the following variables: time and distance to the next role of care, capability of the next role of care, availability of blood products, sterility, anticipation of further casualties, evacuation capability, security, mobility, and patient holding capacity. Patient care must focus on rapid triage, initial resuscitation with blood products, rapid control of hemorrhage and contamination with a damage control approach, and subsequent transfer to higher echelon. Presentation will follow weekly combat patient case review. hashtag#JointTraumaSystem hashtag#JTS hashtag#TraumaMedicine hashtag#CombatCasualtyCare hashtag#JTET hashtag#CoSCCC