Afghanistan's lessons for naval trauma care

Have naval medical facilities changed in response to trauma-care lessons from Afghanistan?

Trauma care has improved, and Dan believes modular facilities have developed for use from tents or ships, but he is unsure how they would perform in a peer naval conflict.

Dan is confident that trauma care has improved, while describing modular facilities usable from tents or ships more tentatively. He does not claim to know how well those arrangements would perform in a peer conflict. Naval facilities can carry equipment that would be difficult to provide in the field, but they also sit at the end of a supply chain. A hit creates a different casualty problem because a bulkhead can separate people sheltered from an explosion from people exposed to severe blast inside the struck compartment. Confinement can intensify the explosion within that space, while successive bulkheads limit its spread. These differences complicate the transfer of lessons from Afghanistan to a naval battle.