Causes of Death in Military Working Dogs During Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom, 2001-2013.

Conclusions: Our study is the most comprehensive to date that reports causes of death of MWDs deployed to OIF and OEF. However, limitations in the available data lessen the potential of our results to inform improvements in training and point of injury medical care. Better documentation in VTRs and systematic data collection into an official MWD trauma registry could lead to improved training and facilitate further development and evaluation of guidelines to improve care of wounded MWDs in future conflicts. PMID: 29547926 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Military Medicine - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Mil Med Source Type: research