Hemostatic Damage Control Surgery Combined With Strategic Evacuation in an Intensive Care Airborne Unit Saved Life in a Critical Gun Shot Injury

摘要

A Norwegian officer was shot and critically wounded in Afghanistan in 2003. His life was primarily saved by damage control surgery in a Dutch military hospital in Kabul. He was evacuated with an intensive care air transport from Kabul, via Termez to Oslo, Norway, where final surgery was performed. He has recovered. The case demonstrates how advanced damage control surgery in the area of operation combined with an organization equipped and staffed for strategic evacuation of intensive care patients can offer treatment to combat casualties on the level of western urban trauma care.