A Mobile Trauma Bay is a containerized ambulance bay mounted on an Oshkosh Logistic Vehicle System Replacement (LVSR).Chris Lawrence, CNN Pentagon Correspondence, “An Armored Emergency Room Doesn't Have to Wait for the Wounded.” CNN, April 12, 2010, accessed September 12, 2013.Col. Oliver North, "Report From a Forgotten War: Second in a Series." FoxNews.com, August 14, 2008, accessed September 12, 2013. It holds state-of-the-art medical equipment and carries a Shock Trauma Platoon, generally consisting of one doctor, a nurse and three corpsmen, providing advanced resuscitative care to critically injured service members within the first hour after a traumatic injury (the "golden hour"). It takes emergency medical care far forward, saving more lives.Lance Cpl. Khoa Pelczar, "Mobile Trauma Bay Brings Medical Care Closer to Battlefield ," 1st Marine Logistics Group, May 1, 2010, accessed September 15, 2013.“,” America’s North Shore Journal, October 14, 2008, accessed August 24, 2013. Over 98% of the wounded Marines who make it into the MTB, make it out alive.Ben Roberts, “Special Report: Rolling Warfront E-R,” WALB News 10, May 2, 2011, accessed August 28, 2013.
History The MTB was designed and developed by James L. Hancock in 2008."Captain James L. Hancock, Deputy Commander, Naval Medical Center Portsmouth ," Navy Medicine. United States Navy. Accessed August 24, 2013.Amanda Hickey, "Lejeune Officer's Portable ER Saving Lives in the Field," newsobserver.com, August 23, 2009, accessed September 22, 2013. There were 914 concept drawings over the four-month period from design to deployment.Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, August 27, 2009, accessed September 22, 2013.
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CNN profile of a Mobile Trauma Bay