Medical personnel aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42) and the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) participated in the first Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System (ERSS) during a surgical drill June 4-5.
A team of medical officers and hospital corpsmen from Naval Medical Center San Diego is the first ERSS trial group to introduce the Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System concept to U.S. 7th Fleet.
The San Diego naval medical team, which includes critical care nurses, surgical technicians, hospital corpsmen, an anesthesiologist and emergency room physicians performed simulated surgeries at two different ship platforms on Yokosuka Naval Base to evaluate the surgical and medical capabilities aboard U.S. 7th Fleet ships.
ERSS augments medical personnel and equipment from various medical facilities around the world to provide critical care that may not be readily available in the 7th Fleet. The system is designed to provide a tailored, mission-specific medical capability, close to the point of injury that supports the range of military operations afloat and ashore.
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