• Catherine Chatfield-Ball, Peter Boyle, Philippe Autier, Sibylle Herzig van Wees, and Richard Sullivan.
• King's Centre for Global Health, King's College London, London SE5 9RJ, UK Catherine.chatfield-ball@kcl.ac.uk.
• J R Soc Med. 2015 Mar 1; 108 (3): 93-100.

AbstractAccording to the Global Burden of Disease, trauma is now responsible for five million deaths each year. High-income countries have made great strides in reducing trauma-related mortality figures but low-middle-income countries have been left behind with high trauma-related fatality rates, primarily in the younger population. Much of the progress high-income countries have made in managing trauma rests on advances developed in their armed forces. This analysis looks at the recent advances in high-income military trauma systems and the potential transferability of those developments to the civilian health systems particularly in low-middle-income countries. It also evaluates some potential lifesaving trauma management techniques, proven effective in the military, and the barriers preventing these from being implemented in civilian settings.© The Royal Society of Medicine.

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