SITM 2025 - Tactical combat casualty care in cold weather scenarios, a medical and logistic issue to be solved - EDR Magazine

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SITM 2025 - Tactical combat casualty care in cold weather scenarios, a medical and logistic issue to be solved - EDR Magazine

A bleeding casualty tends to become hypothermic even in warm scenarios; think of a casualty hit by small arms fire, or artillery splinters, bleeding at -10°C. How can medics “work” on him or her? How to maintain the casualty warm awaiting evacuation, which in peer-to-peer confrontation is definitely more critical than in operations other than war, those that western armies have been confronted to in the last decades, where the lack of air defenc…