Dr. Pavlus Dr. Schutt Bleeding is what kills people after trauma. That blunt fact anchors a WarDocs conversation between host Dr. Wayne Causey, a vascular surgeon, and two military interventional radiologists — Dr. John Pavlus of Brooke Army Medical Center and Dr. Jonathon Schutt, an interventional radiology resident at Yale. Their subject is endovascular care, and their argument is that the military has a life-saving capability it has not yet pushed close enough to the...

The golden hour was a promise military medicine could keep in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a future large-scale conflict, it may not be a promise anyone can make. COL Shaun Brown, MD, Commander of the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, sat down with WarDocs and OpMed TV at the Defense Strategies Institute OP MED Symposium to explain what that means for the research enterprise he leads. A Rejection, Then September 11th COL Brown planned to attend the U.S. Naval Academy. Bad eyesight closed...

Some lessons in military medicine can only be learned from the litter. For Green Beret combat medic Luke Sciulli, that lesson arrived when a booby-trapped building in Helmand Province collapsed on him and turned the medic into the patient. What followed reshaped how he thinks about casualty care, recovery, and the future of battlefield medicine. The Day Everything Changed On January 18, 2018, Sciulli was running a personnel-recovery operation out of a Taliban-controlled prison in southern...