The mission of the Joint Trauma System (JTS) is to improve trauma readiness and outcomes through evidence-driven performance improvement. The JTS vision is that every Soldier, Sailor, Airman and Marine injured on the battlefield or in any theater of operations will be provided with the optimum chance for survival and maximum potential for functional recovery.
JTS supports US military performance improvement (PI) initiatives and activities by identifying, tracking and making recommendations on efforts to ensure the appropriate evaluation and treatment of injured Service members across the continuum of care, improve medic training and ensure medical readiness.
The DoDTR is the first and only DoD trauma patient registry to collect combat casualty care epidemiology, treatments and outcomes from point of injury to recovery. The DoDTR contains identified information taken from medical records, expert clinical inference, scoring and coding schematics, probability determination and PI data.
As the DoD Center of Excellence for MHS trauma care delivery, JTS directly assists each Combatant Command in trauma system planning, treatment, management, and improvement of casualty outcomes to include battle injuries, disease non-battle injuries and all-hazard settings through evidence-driven performance improvement.
New JTS branch facilitates the trauma center verification process.
The Trauma System Support & Consultation (TSS&C) Branch provides military medical treatment facility (MTF) leadership the support they need to raise their level of readiness and trauma care for both new and existing centers. JTS trauma care experts prepare centers new to the verification process in developing their processes and policies to successfully achieve trauma center status according to American College of Surgeons (ACS) standards. TSS&C works with established trauma centers to assure their programs are continuously up to date with ACS trauma center standards and to assist in preparation for re-verification.
The Trauma System Support & Consultation branch is led by COL (ret) Stephen Flaherty, MD, FACS and is supported by the breadth of the JTS to include data scientists and the performance improvement branch.
JTS adds new research, techniques, and recommendations to ensure the preservation of maximum limb length and facilitate optimal rehabilitative function. See the infographic to learn more. Click here to read the updated Amputation: Evaluation and Treatment CPG.
The prompt movement of patients to the required level of clinical care is essential to prevent morbidity and mortality. The En Route Care (ERC) Patient Packaging, 20 Aug 2024 CPG is a ready resource for those responsible for preparing a patient for en route care to prepare patients for evacuation to ensure the safe transport of casualties during evacuation to definitive care.
The ERC CPG addresses the requirements defined in Joint Publication (JP) 1-02, Department of Defense (DoD) Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms and JP 4-02 for transitory medical care, patient holding, and staging capabilities from the point of injury or onset of disease throughout the continuum of care.
Check out the Emergency War Surgery Course lectures, the presentations based off the evidence-based JTS clinical practice guidelines.
