Military Medics Advance Trauma Care: Air Force Reserve Command surgeon Col. Jay Johannigman—on his third combat tour—says that today’s military medic “has re-emerged as a leader and innovator, leaning forward and taking home important medical lessons.” One such innovation is the use of a shunt, or plastic tube, as a temporary means to couple two ends of a torn blood vessel. Johannigman, who works as trauma director at University Hospital in Cincinnati, says, “That is unheard of in the states.” (Read more here.)
The Air Force plans to conduct more intensive training—and Congress is set to help by boosting funding for exercises and so-called “campaigning” by hundreds of millions of dollars, particularly in the Pacific.
