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Article: The forward surgical team: the army's ultimate lifesaving force ...(Professional Forum)
- Article from:
- Infantry Magazine
- Article date:
- December 22, 2003
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The purpose of this article is to define the Forward Surgical Team (FST), delineate its mission, and explain how to use it to optimize combat casualty care for the supported maneuver unit. The intent is to give brigade, forward support battalion, and forward support medical company commanders an operational knowledge of the Army Forward Surgical Team.
Some basic definitions of hospitals and personnel are necessary. Any hospital, military or civilian, is set up to take care of injured personnel (i.e. car accident, gunshot wound, fragmentation wound) with standing operating procedures (SOPs) that are common to all hospitals. Casualties, or patients, first filter ...