Battlefield medicine, also called
field surgery and later
combat casualty care, is the treatment of wounded
combatants and
non-combatants in or near an area of
combat.
Civilian medicine has been greatly advanced by procedures that were first developed to treat the wounds inflicted during combat. With the advent of advanced procedures and medical technology, even
polytrauma can be survivable in modern wars. Battlefield medicine is a category of
military medicine.