U. S. Army Operation Enduring Freedom Deployment Injury Surveillance Summary, 1 January-31 December 2012.

摘要

The goals of this report on injuries to Soldiers engaged in Operation Enduring Freedom are to: describe the relative impact of injuries (battle and non-battle) compared to diseases for calendar year (CY) 2012; document non-battle injury (NBI) rates and trends from 2003 to 2012; identify leading causes and diagnoses of NBI for CY 2012; summarize key U.S. Army Public Health Command (USAPHC) CY 2012 analytic deployment surveillance projects on injuries among deployed Soldiers; and make recommendations for the improvement of Army injury prevention based on data analyzed. Routinely collected air evacuation, in-theater hospitalizations, and casualty data provide the basis for deployment injury surveillance during Army deployments in support of OEF. NBI was notably the most significant cause of medical air evacuations. As in previous years, the proportion of air-evacuated NBIs was larger than that of battle injuries (BIs) and any other category of disease. NBI was the second leading cause of OEF hospitalizations while BI was the first leading cause. Similar to previous reports, the leading cause of these NBIs indicate that many are likely preventable.