About The Authors

LTC Pamplin, USA, is a board-certified intensivist and is currently the director of Virtual Critical Care at Madigan Army Medical Center, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. Previously, he was the director of the US Army Burn Intensive Care Unit and chief of Clinical Trials in Burns and Trauma at the US Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, Texas. He has served as the Simulation and Training Director for the Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Program, San Antonio Military Medical Center, and the director of the Surgical Intensive Care Unit, Brooke Army Medical Center.

MAJ Fisher, USAR, is a first-year medical student at Texas A&M College of Medicine and assigned to the 7249th MSU, Houston, Texas. He was previously assigned to the 75th Ranger Regiment, where he served as a battalion and regimental physician assistant.

SFC Penny, USA, is a senior medic and instructor at the Special Operations Combat Medic Course, US Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School.

SFC Olufs, USA, is a Special Forces Medical Sergeant, currently serving as noncommissioned officer in charge of Emergency Medicine at the Joint Special Operations Medical Training Center. He has previously served as a Special Forces Operational Detachment-A Senior Medical Sergeant on four deployments to the Central Command Area of Operations with 5th Special Forces Group.

SFC Rapp, USA, is assigned to the Office of Special Warfare as the NCOIC for Unconventional Warfare Medicine Research.

Dr Hampton is a board-certified emergency physician with additional fellowship training in emergency ultrasonography. She is an avid medical educator and a volunteer subject matter expert and ultrasound instructor for the military medical community. Dr Hampton is currently practicing at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany (US Army Medical Department).

MAJ Powell, USA, is a board-certified intensivist. He is currently the 4th Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne) surgeon and staff intensivist at Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, North Carolina. He serves on the Prolonged Field Care Working Group as chair of the research subcommittee and a member of the telemedicine subcommittee.

COL Keenan, USA, is a board-certified emergency medicine physician, and is currently serving as Command Surgeon, Special Operations Command, Europe. He has previously served as Battalion Surgeon in both 1st and 3rd SFG(A), and as Group Surgeon, 10th SFG(A). He is the coordinator for the SOMA Prolonged Field Care Working Group.

Col Shackelford, USAF, is a trauma surgeon, currently serving as the chief of Performance Improvement, Joint Trauma System, San Antonio, Texas. She is a member of the Committee on TCCC and has previously deployed as the director of the Joint Theater Trauma System.