Battlefield lessons
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Trauma surgery and emergency medicine are studded with battlefield breakthroughs, from the development of triage and bone splints during World War I to the use of blood clot-promoting bandages in Iraq and Afghanistan. Mizzou has been on the leading edge of implementing those trauma care advancements for decades. It started when Dr. Frank L. Mitchell Jr. came to University Hospital after a two-year stint as a U.S. Army surgeon in Germany in 1959.