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Combatant Command Trauma System (CTS)

Date of Publication:

9/28/2016

Definition:

An organized network of trauma care specialists within each of the geographical CCMDs and select functional CCMDs responsible for optimizing trauma care in support of CCDR requirements. The CTS may be scaled to accommodate the ROMO by maintaining a framework of trauma care specialists assigned to regionally aligned medical treatment facilities who additional trauma care specialists may augment, depending upon the phase of operation and level of trauma support required. This term and its definition are proposed for inclusion in the DOD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms.

Source of Definition:

DoDI 6040.47: Joint Trauma System

Last Updated: September 15, 2022
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