Healthcare and Medical News: Barksdale AFB trains medics with Tactical Combat Casualty Care

Barksdale AFB medics use TCCC guidelines to provide first-line trauma care and prehospital medicine in a combat zone.

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Air Force Capt. Marsha Bennett, 2nd Operational Medical Readiness Squadron nurse manager of the flight medicine clinic, provides tactical field care to a training dummy during a Tactical Combat Casualty Care field training exercise at Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana in early Dec. 2020. TCCC is developed by the U.S. Department of Defense Defense Health Agency (DHA) Joint Trauma System to teach evidence-based, life-saving techniques and strategies for providing the best trauma care on the battlefield. (Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jacob Wrightsman)

Barksdale AFB trains medics with Tactical Combat Casualty Care

Medics of the 2nd Medical Group are becoming a whole lot more lethal, in a good way.

With the implementation of the Tactical Combat Casualty Care guidelines and the TCCC training course, Barksdale's medics are training to become increasingly proficient in providing first line trauma care and prehospital medicine in a combat zone.

Health literacy focuses on empowering patients to engage in their care

Helping patients and caregivers understand the information they receive from their health care team reduces potential miscommunication and can improve the patient care experience.

Michelle Pribble, Naval Medical Center San Diego's (NMCSD) lead nuclear medicine technologist, administers an IV to a patient before a positron emission tomography (PET) scan in the hospital's Nuclear Medicine Department. Active communication between patient and provider is a cornerstone of health literacy. (Photo by Navy Seaman Luke Cunningham.)

Walter Reed Bethesda Army Maj. (Dr.) Steve Hong

In a virtual gathering, Army Maj. (Dr.) Steve Hong [bottom right corner] receives the Physician Award from Col. (Dr.) Andrew Barr, Army Col. (Dr.) B. Kyle Potter, and Army Col. (Dr.) Daniel Gallagher [right top corner] while colleagues like Dr. Davud Sirjani, associate professor of Surgery at Stanford University [bottom left corner], and family members, including the major's wife, Jenna [bottom center], look on during the presentation. (Screenshot courtesy of Monica Vereen, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland.)

Walter Reed Bethesda physician recognized at AMSUS

Army Maj. (Dr.) Steve Hong received the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States (AMSUS) Physician Award during the 2020 AMSUS Awards ceremony held recently.