Summary: From 2020-2022, this author deployed three times with the US Army. These deployments involved a field hospital in Baghdad, Iraq; a no-notice deployment with a forward resuscitative surgical team before the fall of Kabul, Afghanistan; and a no-notice deployment with a forward resuscitative surgical team to Romania after Russia invaded Ukraine. This presentation: 1. Relives those deployments, as well as the moments leading up to those deployments, from the point of view of an Emergency Medicine Physician. 2. Discusses the unique medical cases seen in those austere environments, such as treatment of COVID-19 and hypoxia in a combat zone with a portable oxygen generator, treatment of a military working dog, diagnosis and management of infectious myositis, and mass casualties from the explosion at Abbey Gate in Kabul. 3. Discusses the NATO roles of care (e.g., Role 1, Role 2, Role 3, and Role 4). 4. Discusses CBRNE preparation in Eastern Europe.
Simon Sarkisian (Sun,) studied this question.