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82. Simmons J, Sikorski R, Pittet J. Tranexamic acid: from trauma Dr Butler has served as the Command Surgeon for the US Spe-
to routine perioperative use. Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2015; cial Operations Command. He is currently the chair of the
28:191–200. Department of Defense’s CoTCCC and director of Prehospital
83. Woodson J. Use of TXA in combat casualty care. Assistant Trauma Care at the Joint Trauma System.
Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs memo. 9 October
2013. COL Blackbourne is a trauma surgeon at the San Antonio
84. Roberts I, Shakur H, Afolabi A, et al.; CRASH-2 Collabo-
rators. The importance of early treatment with tranexamic Military Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas. He was previ-
acid in bleeding trauma patients: an exploratory analysis of ously the Commander of the US Army Institute of Surgical Re-
the CRASH-2 randomised controlled trial. Lancet. 2011;377: search and the director of the Army Trauma Training Center
1096–1101. at the Ryder Trauma Center in Miami, Florida.
85. Morrison JJ, Dubose JJ, Rasmussen TE, et al. Military appli-
cation of tranexamic acid in trauma emergency resuscitation COL Gross is a trauma surgeon with prior experience with
study (MATTERs). Arch Surg. 2012:147:113–119. the US Special Operations Command and combat-deployed
forward surgical teams. He has over 50 months of deployed
service providing surgical care to our nation’s combat wounded
in Afghanistan and Iraq and is the Trauma Consultant to the
CAPT (Ret.) Butler was a Navy SEAL platoon commander Army Surgeon General. He was previously the Director of the
before becoming a physician. He is an ophthalmologist and a Joint Trauma System and is presently the Director of the De-
Navy Undersea Medical Officer with over 20 years of experi- fense Medical Readiness Training Institute.
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