title: The Navy Nurse and combat with a focus on the casualty processing unit.
abstract: This article describes a flexible and versatile tri-care triage medical system within a combat arena in which the Navy nurse, integrating with other factions of the military, provided the injured sailor and Marine consistent and optimal care. A systemized approach to casualty flow created a simple, multi-purposed, and accelerated system that proved effective to both fighting troops and military operations. Personal experiences in the Desert Storm arena focused on the advantage of short-distance evacuations.
authors.affiliation: Casualty Rec FH 20, University of Pennsylvania, USA.
authors.forename: P E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Crawford
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Kerstein
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008889:Military Personnel; D009326:Naval Medicine; D009729:Nursing; D012529:Saudi Arabia; D014218:Triage / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States; D014857:Warfare