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Knight Division TacticalDoes KDT provide remote trauma care?
Remote Trauma Care
Yes.
KDT provides remote trauma care: trauma-capable medics embedded with crews and teams far from a hospital, who can treat, stabilize and hold a patient on site for as long as it takes when evacuation isn't immediately possible.
Typical configuration
- Personnel
- Trauma-capable medics with military and austere experience
- Skills
- Hemorrhage control, airway, burns, fractures, environmental injuries, prolonged care
- Kit
- Trauma, airway and extended-care supplies sized to the time to evacuation
- Comms
- Satellite comms to medical direction, air ambulance and hospitals
- Planning
- Casualty evacuation plan, landing zones and triggers
Most medical plans assume an ambulance can get there and a hospital is within an hour. On a polar project, a backcountry pipeline corridor, a flooded region with the roads gone or an operation in a high-risk country, neither is true. Weather grounds the helicopter, the road is out, and the medic on site is the care.
KDT's remote trauma care puts trauma-capable personnel with your crews: medics with military and austere medical experience who can control bleeding, manage airways, treat burns, fractures, cold and heat injuries, and keep a patient stable for hours if that's what it takes. They carry the equipment for it, work under physician medical direction where required, and are credentialed as the job and jurisdiction require.
Before the work starts we build the casualty plan: evacuation routes and triggers, landing zones, comms to air ambulance and the receiving hospital, and what happens when the weather says no. Then we drill it with your people.
Available as
- Embedded medic with a remote crew
- Medic with a security or protective team
- Remote site medical post
- Casualty evacuation planning and drills
- Trauma training for your crews
What's included
- Casualty and evacuation plan before deployment
- Medic with trauma and extended-care kit
- Satellite comms for medical direction and medevac
- Restocking and patient care records
- Crew briefing and drills
Where it's used
- Flood and hurricane zones with roads cut
- Polar, backcountry and roadless project sites
- Security and contracting operations in high-risk regions
- Maritime transits far from port
Questions, answered.
Does KDT provide remote trauma care?
Yes. We embed trauma-capable medics with crews and teams far from a hospital, who can treat, stabilize and hold a patient on site until evacuation is possible.
What's different about remote trauma care?
Time. A normal plan expects transport in minutes. Remote care plans for hours, with the skills, supplies and comms to keep a patient stable until the helicopter can fly or the road opens.
Who are the medics?
Medics with military and austere medical experience, credentialed as the job and jurisdiction require and working under physician medical direction where required.
Do you plan the evacuation too?
Yes. Every deployment has a casualty evacuation plan with routes, landing zones, triggers and comms to air ambulance and hospitals, drilled with your crews.
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