Casualty Rates

Napoleonic Age

• First use of Military Hospitals

• Triage system– Simple battlefield sorting system

• Use of canned food

• Some attempts at field sanitation and hygiene

• No concept of germs

WWI: 8 out of every 100 Wounded Died

WWI: 4 out of every 100 Wounded Died

Vietnam: 2.5 out of every 100 Wounded Died

Iraq: .13 out of every 100 Wounded Died

Military Casualties

Why has the ratio of Killed to Wounded changed over time?

What is the #1 killer of soldiers in war? Has this changed?

Vietnam War

• Medevac process – Influences modern

Life-flight system

Today

Near Front line Trauma Care

Full Surgical Hospitals

Equipped like civilian hospitals