title: Utilization of a civilian academic center as a force multiplier in support of NATO special operations medicine - a pilot demonstration.
abstract: This work describes a NATO-university telemedicine collaboration established to perform a teleneurosurgery consult to assist a deployed soldier with a spinal cord injury.
authors.affiliation: Department Surgery/Neurosurgery, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA.
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lennarson
authors.forename: Ben H
authors.initials: BH
authors.lastname: Boedeker
authors.forename: Gail M
authors.initials: GM
authors.lastname: Kuper
authors.forename: Oystein Petter
authors.initials: OP
authors.lastname: Nygaard
authors.forename: Tonje Okkenhaug
authors.initials: TO
authors.lastname: Johansen
authors.forename: Annette
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Halvorsen
authors.forename: Inge
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Halvorsen
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Irizarry
mesh_terms: D000046:Academic Medical Centers; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D008887:Military Medicine; D008889:Military Personnel; D009493:Neurosurgery; D010865:Pilot Projects; D017216:Telemedicine