To accompany its June 2016 report calling for improved trauma care in the U.S., the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine created a video that briefly illustrates the report’s main messages. Advances in military trauma care achieved during the Afghanistan and Iraq wars can be translated to the civilian sector to improve trauma care for all Americans, say the report’s authors. Sustaining these military advances, and closing the gap between the military and civilian sectors, can help to improve trauma care—to protect those the nation sends into harm’s way, and to benefit every American.
View the video HERE.