Surgical Combat Casualty Care (SCCC)
JTS Committee of Surgical Combat Casualty Care (CoSCCC) Advises DoD/DHA Leadership on Orthopedic Surgical Needs for Future Combat Operations
February 4, 2025
As the DoD expert on trauma care, the JTS has released a statement outlining the orthopedic surgical needs, requirements, and resources for providing optimal care of wounded warriors in future large scale combat operations (LSCO). Proper orthopedic care is critical as high rates of orthopedic injuries are anticipated in LSCO with large numbers of casualties, multiple mass casualty incidents, and delays in evacuation. Extremity injuries that do not receive adequate surgical management in the deployed theater will result in increased morbidities to include infection, amputation, loss of extremity function, chronic pain, disability, and overall force attrition. Read about how this growing issue impacts our troops and what we can do to prepare for tomorrow's conflicts.
Mission Statement
CoSCCC promotes optimal surgical care of combat casualties and recommends changes to DoD trauma care delivery related to surgical care and resuscitation through the Commander, Medical Research and Material Command; Director of Defense Health Agency; the Service Surgeons General; the Joint Staff; and the Combatant Commands.
CoSCCC Addresses Rise of Single Surgeon Teams and the Need for Neurosurgeons in Theater
January 7, 2022
The Surgical Committee met in Nov 2021 for the first in-person gathering since the COVID pandemic. CDR Shane Jensen led the meeting as the newly appointed Chair for the Surgical Committee. RDML Hancock and BG Cox were the General Officers in attendance, and the committee was presented with the deployed surgeon accounts from the tragedy at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. The presentation was both emotional and notable.
Defense Committees on Trauma Conducts Inaugural Tri-Committee Conference
February 24, 2021
This past fall, the Committee on Surgical Combat Casualty Care (CoSCCC) joined forces with the Committee on EnRoute Combat Casualty Care (CoERCCC) and the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) to host the first combined Defense Committee on Trauma (DCoT) conference after COVID-19 forced the committees to cancel the spring meetings.
