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Military Medicine 250 video podcast: Episode Three— Military Medicine Invents Medical Evacuation System
“It was a phenomenal system. It’s still a phenomenal system.” — Dr. Dale Smith, Uniformed Services University Historian From the Civil War battlefield to the skies over Vietnam, military medical evacuation has continually evolved to get wounded service members the care they need. In the third episod
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“It was a phenomenal system. It’s still a phenomenal system.” — Dr. Dale Smith, Uniformed Services University Historian
From the Civil War battlefield to the skies over Vietnam, military medical evacuation has continually evolved to get wounded service members the care they need.
In the third episode of the Military Medicine 250 video podcast, Peter J. Graves, from Military Health System Strategic Communication and Public Affairs, continues his conversation with Dr. Dale Smith, military medical historian from the Uniformed Services University. Smith explores the evolution of military medical evacuation, from Major Jonathan Letterman’s Civil War innovations to the helicopter evacuation systems that transformed care in Vietnam. He also considers what military medicine must do next as drones, missiles and contested airspace threaten the “golden hour” standard.
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Attribution: Source: DVIDS Hub — U.S. Department of Defense public-affairs media
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