Henri de Lesquen, Raphael Paris, Marguerite Fournier, Jean Cotte, Anthony Vacher, Damien Schlienger, Jean Philippe Avaro, Bruno de La Villeon
INTRODUCTION: To prepare military doctors to face mass casualty incidents (MCIs), the French Army Health Service contributed to the development of TRAUMASIMS, a serious game (SG) for training medical responders to MCIs. METHODS: French military doctors participated in a three-phase training study. The initial war trauma training was a combination of didactic lectures (Phase 1), laboratory exercises (Phase 2), and situational training exercises (STX) (Phase 3). Phase 1 lectures reviewed French Forward Combat Casualty Care (FFCCC) practices based on the acronym MARCHE (Massive bleeding, Airway, Respiration, Circulation, Head, hypothermia, Evacuation) for the detection of care priorities and implementation of life-saving interventions, triage, and medical evacuation (MEDEVAC) requests...
May 1, 2023: Journal of Special Operations Medicine: a Peer Reviewed Journal for SOF Medical Professionals