Descriptive Summary of Patients Seen at the Surgical Companies During Operation Iraqi Freedom-1

摘要

The Navy Marine Corps Combat Trauma Registry (CTR) is a data repository and warehouse summarizing information from data sets describing events that occurred and treatments administered to casualties from the point of injury to rehabilitation. Among the medical facilities contributing data to the CTR during Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) were the Marine Corps forward surgical companies. Surgical companies offer resuscitative surgery, medical treatment and temporary holding facilities, in addition to preparing patients for evacuation. This paper reviews the types of patients admitted to and treatments received at the surgical companies during the major combat period of OIF. The surgical companies saw an average of 15 to 17 patients a day during this period. Fewer than 20% of the U.S. casualties were wounded in action. In contrast, over 75% of the enemy prisoner of war presentations were for battle injuries. Fewer than 15% of the patients were held at the facilities for more than 24 hours.