2025 Update to Committee on Surgical Combat Casualty Care Research Gap Analysis: Top 10 Research and Development Priorities for Battlefield Surgical Care
The 2025 survey identified a broader set of priorities spanning five focus areas. Underscoring unresolved threats, four topics from 2019 persisted. Six new topics highlighted emerging needs. Priorities shifted away from REBOA toward blood product optimization and shelf-stable or bio-artificial substitutes - critical for resource constrained environments - as well as treatment for burn and CBRN in large-scale combat operations.
Authors
- D Griffiths
- Caryn Stern (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9914-9889)
- Christian S. McEvoy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2510-3511)
- Joshua Holcomb
- Matthew D. Tadlock (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5563-1710)
- James D Wallace
- Jennifer M Gurney
- Matthew J Martin
- Martin A Schreiber
- Laura S Kraemer
Institutions
- University of Southern California (US)
- Naval Medical Center San Diego (US)
- Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (US)
- University of Alabama at Birmingham (US)
- Joint Base San Antonio (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of the American College of Surgeons
- Published
- 2026-02-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/xcs.0000000000001875
- Primary Topic
- Trauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, Resuscitation
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00