How to maintain the readiness of forward deployed caregivers

Matthew D Tadlock¹, Matthew Carr, Joseph Diaz+11

• ¹From the Department of Surgery (M.D.T., M.C., J.D.), Navy Medicine Readiness & Training Command, San Diego, California; Section of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery (P.R.), Westchester Medical Center-New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York; Department of Surgery (J.W.C.), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Department of Surgery (B.J.E.), University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas; Department of Surgery (M.M.M.), University of Colorado Health, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Department of Surgery (E.B.), Navy Medicine & Readiness Training Command, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina; Joint Trauma System, Defense Health Agency (S.A.S., J.M.G.), San Antonio, Texas; Department of Surgery (J.A.J.), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio; Inova Trauma Center (A.G.R.), Falls Church, Virginia; Military Health System Strategic Partnership with the American College of Surgeons University of California (M.M.K.); San Francisco, California; Military Health System Strategic Partnership with the American College of Surgeons (M.M.K.), Chicago, Illinois; and Department of Surgery (J.M.G.), University of California Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, California.