Youichi Yanagawa, Y Oode, Y Adegawa, K-I Muramatsu, Y Kushida, H Nagasawa, I Takeuchi, K Jitsuiki, H Ohsaka, K Omori
Historically, if US soldiers at Camp Fuji become severely ill or suffer trauma, they are transported by the ground ambulance, as the doctor-led air ambulance in eastern Shizuoka has never been permitted to land at Camp Fuji. However, it is widely recognised that severely ill or traumatised patients require time-dependent medical management. It was therefore agreed to undertake a joint exercise between the US medical assets of Camp Fuji and the doctor helicopters in eastern Shizuoka prefecture in evacuating a simulated severely ill or traumatised US soldier...
June 29, 2019: Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps