About CCC
Soldiers face many threats in hostile fire arenas, whether conducting large-scale mechanized warfare, low-intensity conflicts, or stability operations. Although great strides have been made in Combat Casualty Care in the last century, much more can be done to save lives and reduce disabling medical conditions.
Military casualties often wait hours for definitive health care while initial treatment and subsequent evacuation occur in austere surroundings complicated by limited diagnostic tools, medical supplies, and life-support equipment.
Acute and critical care in these conditions is labor intensive and frequently provided by nonmedical personnel.
Combat deaths result from a myriad of causes and are complicated by a multitude of threats to the warfighter.
The Combat Casualty Care Research Program's primary challenge is to overcome these limitations.
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CCCRP Mission
To reduce the mortality and morbidity resulting from injuries on the battlefield.
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CCCRP Strategy
Leverage the nation's vast medical research program with a dynamic in-house research program and investment in key military specific research areas.
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CCCRP Vision
To be the world leader in developing improved trauma care.
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Our goals are:
- To reduce the mortality rate of American troops by 16 percent
- To reduce the morbidity of combat injuries
- To reduce the medical footprint on the battlefield.
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Our rationale for investment:
Approximately 20 percent of all combat deaths are considered preventable if timely, appropriate care had been available. Of those deemed preventable, approximately 20 percent die from exanguination, mainly wounds to the torso. Head injuries and lung injuries are also major causes of death where proper treatments and training could significantly reduce mortality and morbidity. The treatment of battlefield casualties is exacerbated by the long evacuation times often found in military operations.
Of those deemed preventable, approximately 80 percent of all battlefield deaths occur within the first 30 minutes after wounding. Consequently, rapidly locating, diagnosing, and rendering appropriate initial treatments are vital to improving outcomes of battlefield injuries. The need to rapidly provide such care with a reduced logistics footprint is the cornerstone around which the future of combat casualty care research is built.
The CCCRP addresses these needs by fostering the development of knowledge products, biologics, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices that improve casualty care across the continuum from point of wounding, tactical evacuation, damage control resuscitation and surgery, aeromedical evacuation, through acute hospitalization. Of particular emphasis is the first responder's capability to provide effective treatment more rapidly and as close to the place of the injury as possible.
The Combat Casualty Care Research Program is a critical research thrust of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command located at Fort Detrick, Maryland. The CCCRP collaborates closely with the Office of Naval Research's Casualty Care and Management Group and U.S. Air Force research efforts through the Biomedical Initiative Steering Committee, the Tactical Combat Casualty Care Committee, and the Joint Program Committee 6. Concurrently, the CCCRP works with the National Institutes of Health, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and other organizations in seeking improvements in care of combat casualties.
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Work with Us...
USAMRMC continually strives to advance medical products and technologies to support our Armed Forces by participating in collaborations with researchers, businesses, and other organizations through cooperative research and development agreements and extramural funding programs.
For additional information on submitting research proposals or to submit a new product idea, visit http://www.usamraa.army.mil