• Military medicine · Apr 2009

    Wartime critical care air transport.

    • Elizabeth Bridges and Karen Evers.
    • Clinical Investigations Facility, 60 Medical Group, Travis AFB, CA 94535, USA.
    • Mil Med. 2009 Apr 1;174(4):370-5.

    ObjectivesDescribe the characteristics/enroute care of casualties transported by USAF Critical Care Air Transport Teams (CCATT) during Operation Enduring Freedom/Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF).MethodsRetrospective review of TRAC2ES and CCATT Mission Reports (Oct 2001-May 2006).Results3492 patient moves (2439 patients). Moves by route: within Area of Responsibility (AOR) (n = 261); AOR-Landstuhl (LRMC) (n = 1995), Germany-CONUS (n = 1188). For AOR-LRMC: BI (64%), NBI (8%), Disease (25%). Among injured (n = 1491), 69% suffered polytrauma, primarily d/t explosions. Injury area: extremities (63%), head (55%), thorax (46%), abdomen (31%), neck (17%). Injury type: soft tissue (64%), orthopedic (45%), thoracic (35%), skull fracture (27%), brain injury (25%). Disease diagnoses: cardiac (15%) and pulmonary (8%).ConclusionsThis is the first analysis of OEF/OIF CCATT patients. Phase 1 of this study demonstrates the strengths and limitations of TRAC2ES and CCATT Mission Reports to describe the characteristics/enroute care of this unique population.

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