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.
Tune into the JTS Combat Casualty Care Conference every Thursday and learn lifesaving trauma care guidance and techniques. Upcoming topics are featured in the below flyers. Click here to join the conference.
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.
SOCOM Medical Hall of Fame Honor: "We stand on the shoulders of giants!"
JTS leaders were among the nine medical leaders U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) recognized as part of the inaugural class of the Special Operations Forces Medical Hall of Honor at this year's Special Operations Medical Association's Scientific Assembly. This prestigious award is presented to individuals who have demonstrated exemplary medical leadership and selfless service and provided significant medical contributions through sustained superior medical support to the Special Operations Force (SOF) community.
CAPT (ret) Frank K. Butler,
U.S. Navy, Founder of the Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) guidelines and first director of the JTS Prehospital Care Branch.
MSG (ret) Harold R. Montgomery,
U.S. Army, Joint Program Manager TCCC - Vice Chair, Committee of TCCC
COL (ret) Russ S. Kotwal,
U.S. Army, JTS clinical practice contributor and subject matter expert (SME)
COL (ret) Robert L. Mabry,
U.S. Army, JTS SME/Consultant
Learn about radiofrequency electromagnetic field exposure emitting sources and the effects of overexposure. JTS experts educate and inform on how to evaluate and treat overexposure.
Discover how DoD Trauma Registry (DoDTR) data saves lives on and off the battlefield through innovative techniques, devices, and medical interventions. Check out journal studies authored by data analysts, epidemiologists and prominent combat casualty surgeons and trauma care providers. The studies are based on actionable DoDTR data to improve patient care and close gaps in care. Titles include:
Check out the Emergency War Surgery Course lectures, the presentations based off the evidence-based JTS clinical practice guidelines.
