A SORT Plus a GHOST Equals: Experience of Two Forward Medical Teams Supporting Special Operations in Afghanistan 2019

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A SORT Plus a GHOST Equals: Experience of Two Forward Medical Teams Supporting Special Operations in Afghanistan 2019
Nam JJ, Milia DJ, Diamond SR, Gourlay DM 19(3). 117
Publication Type: Journal Article (Ongoing Series / Prolonged Field Care)

Abstract:
Theater Special Operations Force (SOF) medical planners have been using Army forward surgical teams (FSTs) to maintain a golden hour for US SOF during Operation Freedom’s Sentinel in the form of Golden Hour Offset Surgical Treatment Teams (GHOST-Ts) in Afghanistan. Recently, the Special Operations Resuscitation Team (SORT) was designed to decompress and augment a GHOST-T to help extend a golden hour ring in key strategic locations. This article describes both teams working together in Operation Freedom’s Sentinel while deployed in support of SOF in central Afghanistan during the summer fighting season.

Keywords: prolonged field care; austere medicine; military medicine; damage control resuscitation; damage control surgery
PMID: 31539446

DOI: 10.55460/4KB6-VDU3