When service members’ lives are endangered during tactical operations, natural disasters, accidents, and medical emergencies, MEDEVAC personnel serve as a lifeline by providing care and transportation to treatment facilities. Increasingly, military forces operate over extended distances, requiring longer travel to medical centers for surgery or other procedures, which can put critical patients at risk. During transit by ground or air, MEDEVAC responders must maintain patients’ stability. As the well-established theory of the golden hour has shown, stabilizing major trauma patients within 60 minutes of […]