Fig. 3.

Depiction of possible future scenarios for the Operational Patient Care Pathway (OPCP), derived from the Allied Joint Doctrine on Medical Management and future operational analysis. The OPCP has been split into four broad sections: the supply of medical capability (logistics), far-forward care at the point of primary injury, a period of potential secondary injury within Deployed Medical Treatment Facilities, either iatrogenic in nature (e.g. wound debridement) or a feature of the endogenous response to trauma (e.g. apoptotic cell death), and finally, reconstruction, recovery and rehabilitation in the Firm Base. Diagram drawn and assembled by John Skinner (Dstl Imagery) and authors