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AN EXPERIMENTAL PREDEPLOYMENT TRAINING PROGRAM IMPROVES SELF-REPORTED PATIENT TREATMENT CONFIDENCE AND PREPAREDNESS OF ARMY COMBAT MEDICS

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Objective. To develop and assess impact of a focused review of International Trauma Life Support (ITLS) and combat casualty care with hands-on procedure training for U.S. Army medics deploying to Iraq. Methods. The setting was a U.S. Army Medical Department Center and School and Camp Eagle, Iraq. Investigators developed and implemented a command-approved prospective educational intervention with a post hoc survey. Subjects completed a three-day course with simulator and live-tissue procedure laboratories. At deployment's end, medics were surveyed for experience, confidence, and preparedness in treating various casualty severity levels. Investigators used two-tailed t-test with ...

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