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The United States Air Force developed the Air Transportable Hospital (ATH) concept over 30 years ago to satisfy the need for a rapidly reacting medical capability. Aeromedical transportation of seriously ill patients from the countryside to a medical center is a complicated and expensive effort, sometimes expended to get just one very sick person to definitive medical care. The ATH follows the idea of moving the hospital to the patient instead.
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Mathews, T.P. (1985). The Air Transportable Hospital Concept of the United States Air Force. In: Manni, C., Magalini, S.I. (eds) Emergency and Disaster Medicine. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69262-8_82
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