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Building a powerful navy is the key to safeguarding China's maritime rights and interests and developing maritime strategy. Improving the level and capability of trauma care for naval battle is one of the important tasks for safeguarding naval combat capability and keeping up morale. This paper analyzes the characteristics of naval battle and both the key points and difficulties of medical support under the conditions of modern war, and draws lessons from the experiences of United States navy in the construction of medical support mode, force allocation and maritime health platform, and refers to its training mode and evaluation methods by relying on advanced medical equipment to carry out simulated trauma care efficiently. This paper considers and analyzes the mode of maritime health support, the allocation and utilization of mobile medical service force, the research work related to trauma for naval battle and the training of health professionals. The aim of this study was to provide some effective suggestions for improving capacity and efficiency of trauma care for naval battle. DOI: 10.11855/j.issn.0577-7402.2016.12.01

Burn injury continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality in modern combat. During the armed combats in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US army put their new five-class medical evacuation system into service with the aim to send back the wounded to duty as soon as possible. This new system indeed increased the efficiency of treatment and evacuation of casualties with extensive burn injury. Though the evacuation time was significantly shortened under the new system, the effective and efficient evacuation of burn patients remains to be rather important problems needing further study. This review summarizes the medical evacuation system of burn casualties and features of burn injuries in US Army in the said conflicts. It may provide some ideas for our burn casualty treatment in future armed conflicts, and it may serve as a reference for treatment of massive casualties caused by catastrophic events in peace time. DOI: 10.11855/j.issn.0577-7402.2015.01.16