PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Youichi Yanagawa
AU  - Y Oode
AU  - Y Adegawa
AU  - K-i Muramatsu
AU  - Y Kushida
AU  - H Nagasawa
AU  - I Takeuchi
AU  - K Jitsuiki
AU  - H Ohsaka
AU  - K Omori
TI  - Japanese civilian and US military interaction in the evacuation of casualties from Camp Fuji
AID  - 10.1136/jramc-2019-001247
DP  - 2019 Jun 29
TA  - Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps
PG  - jramc-2019-001247
4099  - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/early/2019/06/29/jramc-2019-001247.short
4100  - http://militaryhealth.bmj.com/content/early/2019/06/29/jramc-2019-001247.full
AB  - Historically, if US soldiers at Camp Fuji become severely ill or suffer trauma, they are transported by the ground ambulance, as the doctor-led air ambulance in eastern Shizuoka has never been permitted to land at Camp Fuji. However, it is widely recognised that severely ill or traumatised patients require time-dependent medical management. It was therefore agreed to undertake a joint exercise between the US medical assets of Camp Fuji and the doctor helicopters in eastern Shizuoka prefecture in evacuating a simulated severely ill or traumatised US soldier. The aim of this article is to describe the background and rationale between this collaboration between the civilian Japanese air ambulance and the US medical assets in Camp Fuji.