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Joint Theater Trauma System. This theater-wide trauma system was established in conjunction with the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research and the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma. It led to deployment of forward surgical teams with Level III capabilities much closer to Soldiers in the field. Surgeons now definitively repair all recognized vascular injuries before Soldiers leave Iraq or Afghanistan. Fast evacuation is possible with a median time of approximately 8.5 days from the point of vascular injury in theater to arrival in a U.S. level V facility. Weekly teleconferences across three continents to discuss ongoing management of vascular injuries and web-based electronic medical records that follow Soldiers back home, ensure continuity of care. Widespread use of tourniquets. In a reversal of previous medical practice, the military now widely distributes tourniquets and trains Soldiers and medics in their use. Most combat-related extremity injuries now arrive with tourniquets applied pre-hospital, a practice widely credited with saving the lives of Soldiers who might have died on the battlefield in previous conflicts due to hemorrhage. Advances in damage control resuscitation (DCR). DCR techniques, such as rapid transfusion of fresh, warm blood components and treating hypothermia upon admission to battlefield hospitals, enable vascular surgeons to perform more procedures in forward deployed (Level III) surgical sites closer to the fight rather than delaying treatment by waiting to evacuate patients to higher-level trauma hospitals. Modern DCR practices helped reduce case fatality rates to 9.4 percent in the current conflicts compared to 19.1 percent in World War II and 15.8 percent in Vietnam.Temporary vascular shunts. These devices

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SAN ANTONIO, June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaking on behalf of the National Trauma Institute (NTI), Donald H. Jenkins, M.D., FACS, Chief of Trauma for the Mayo Clinic and Chairman-Elect of NTI, testified today before the U.S.