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On Distant Battlefields, Survival Odds Rise Sharply By: Alan Cullison

On Distant Battlefields, Survival Odds Rise Sharply By: Alan Cullison. Presented By: Kendal McCann and Billy Painter. Afghanistan and Iraq war statistics. Afghanistan- 55,000 U.S. soldiers 32,000 non-U.S. NATO forces Casualties – 1043 U.S. soldiers

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On Distant Battlefields, Survival Odds Rise Sharply By: Alan Cullison

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  1. On Distant Battlefields, Survival Odds Rise SharplyBy: Alan Cullison Presented By: Kendal McCann and Billy Painter

  2. Afghanistan and Iraq war statistics • Afghanistan- 55,000 U.S. soldiers 32,000 non-U.S. NATO forces Casualties – 1043 U.S. soldiers 680 non-U.S. soldiers • Iraq- 98,000 U.S. soldiers All other nations have withdrawn their troops from Iraq Casualties - 4,390 U.S. soldiers 316 non-U.S. soldiers

  3. Past Wartime Medical Advancements • Civil war: Doctors learned the best way to amputate limbs • World War 1: Development of typhoid vaccine • World War 2: Mass use of penicillin • Korea and Vietnam: Medical evacuation by helicopter • All which have been transferred back to the US to save lives

  4. Recent Medical advancements • New ways to control bleeding (QuickClot Combat Gauze) • Sophisticated portable X-ray and MRI machines • New equipment to guide catheters through veins • New techniques recommended by physicians years ago are now being tested on a larger scale due to the severity of most injuries • Wounded soldiers are surviving at a greater rate than ever before in the history of war • 95% survival rate of those who live long enough to receive medial attention

  5. A Typical Day for a Military Doctor • Dr. John York: Interventional Radiologist • Specialist Alwin injured from an IED • Shrapnel grazed one of the vertebral arteries that fed his brain and was leaking into his lungs • Dr. York then performed a breakthrough medical technique where he snaked a tube from an artery in Alwin’s leg until it reached his neck and the device popped open and blocked the blood from the ballooning artery

  6. A Typical Day for a Military Doctor Continued • When most surgeons would have amputated one infrantryman’s leg after a scan showed large clusters of shrapnel in his thigh and a splintered femur • Dr. York shot dye into the soldier’s arteries to find the leg could be saved • Dr. York used nickel-and-titanium filter into one of the soldier’s veins just below the heart to keep errant blood clots from flowing into his heart and lungs • Through this procedure the soldier was not only spared his leg, but the trauma of having his leg amputated during war

  7. Conclusion • One positive that comes out of war can be seen as the medical advancements that arise during wartime • Throughout the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with past wartimes, new techniques have been developed and have saved millions of soldiers and civilians lives’ • "Medical textbooks are being rewritten as we speak,” says Sgt. Anthony Reich, the U.S. Air Force's equivalent of a paramedic

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