10 December 2007
German hospitals help GIs with specialty care
Posted by darkblue under: LRMC in the news .
With specialization often impractical at Landstuhl
LANDSTUHL, Germany - After suffering severe injuries from a roadside bomb blast in Iraq on Nov. 9, Army Staff Sgt. Jonathon L. Martin died on Thanksgiving. The 33-year-old soldier, husband and father of three passed away at a university hospital in Regensburg, Germany, almost a four-hour drive east of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.
Nearly all U.S. soldiers wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan are treated at Landstuhl, the largest American hospital outside the U.S., before being flown to the States. But some of them are treated at German hospitals when highly specialized care is required.
Martin suffered a punctured lung, lost his left leg, and broke his pelvis, arm, and nose from the explosion, according to a Toledo, Ohio, TV station. Martin initially was treated at Landstuhl but was transferred to Regensburg because he was on a device called the Novalung, developed at the Regensburg hospital.  …….more
