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The NATO Special Operations Surgical Team Development Course A Program Overview

Fall 2019

Parker PJ. 19(3). 26 - 29. (Journal Article)

Abstract

The Special Operations Surgical Team Development Course (SOSTDC) is a 5-day course held two or three times a year at the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) training facility within the Special Operations Medical Branch (SOMB) of the Allied Centre for Medical Education (ACME). Its aim is to teach, train, develop, and encourage NATO partner nations to provide robust, hardened, and clinically able surgical resuscitation teams that are capable of providing close support to Special Operations Forces (SOF).

Keywords: Special Operations Surgical Team; resuscitation; in-flight surgery; blood

PMID: 31539431

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