ABSTRACT
Abdominal injuries remain one of the unsolved management conundrums of combat casualty care. Non-compressible torso haemorrhage (NCTH) is still the main source of potentially preventable deaths in the battlefield—every minute saved counts towards improved patient survival. However, no effective method of pre-surgical haemorrhage control has yet been invented. In response to this prehospital gap in casualty care, deployed military surgeons are pushed far-forward, closer to the battlefield, to achieve a reasonable timeline for intra-abdominal haemorrhage control.
