A Casualty Tracking System Modeled After Air Traffic Control Methodology Employed in a Combat Support Hospital in Iraq

Pilot Study of a Simple Mass Casualty Tracking Application (MCTA)Tested at a High-Throughput Trauma Center

“…Bushmaster is an intense, four-day capstone field problem for fourth year military medical students which rigorously tests their ability to provide patient care, manage logistics and display leadership in austere day and nighttime operations while still supporting notional combat operations. As a direct result of this test, military medical personnel in Al Asad, Iraq learned of the system and requested to put it to the test in the warzone during their monthly mass casualty exercises with the result of significant improvement in their ability to track patients correctly and efficiently compared to their previous methods [2].…”