Modernization Doctrine

Forging a Centenary Military · New Appearance, New Actions | "Combat Alert" Sounds in the Emergency Room

攻坚建军百年·新样貌新作为丨急救室里拉响“战斗警报”

PLA Daily (解放军报) 29 May 2026

Summary

Joint Logistic Support Force Hospital 960's War Trauma Treatment Center has restructured its civilian emergency department to function as a standing combat casualty care training environment, organizing duty rotations around field medical station (野战医疗所) staffing structures, equipping incoming patients with electronic casualty tag wristbands (电子伤票手环) modeled on field casualty tags, and configuring its emergency operating room to match a field surgical vehicle (野战手术车). The article documents a specific institutional answer to a persistent PLA medical readiness problem: how to build战救 (combat casualty care) proficiency without access to actual combat casualties. The framing points to a deliberate effort to raise 含战量 ('combat loading') in rear-area hospital operations, though the article does not establish how widely this model has been adopted beyond Hospital 960.

Translation

The 960th Hospital's War Trauma Treatment Center Explores a New Model for Medical Support Combat Training —— "Combat Alert" Sounds in the Emergency Room

■ PLA Daily Reporter Zhu Baiyan, Special Correspondent Wang Xuechao

"Multiple traffic accident casualties will arrive at the hospital within 40 minutes. The tiered mass-casualty response mechanism is now activated." On a summer night, an alarm suddenly sounded at the War Trauma Treatment Center of Joint Logistic Support Force Hospital 960, and medical personnel instantly entered a combat-ready state.

At the scene, this reporter observed that when the alarm sounded, Dr. Xu Lin, who was on duty standby, received the emergency response order from the treatment center. He moved quickly to the front-line treatment area, organized into groups according to the contingency plan, assessed casualty conditions, calibrated instruments, and checked equipment… Before the ambulances arrived, Xu Lin and several other medical personnel had already entered a state of readiness.

Inside the treatment center's main hall, preparations for receiving patients proceeded in an orderly manner. Soon, the first batch of casualties arrived at the hospital. Upon examination, one casualty was found to be in critical condition; Xu Lin and the medical personnel in his group immediately transferred the patient to the emergency operating room for surgery.

In peacetime, there are no combat-wounded casualties — so how can combat casualty care (战救) skills be honed? The treatment center has blazed a new path: treat every trauma case as combat casualty care training. Xu Lin told this reporter that the hospital organically integrates routine casualty care with combat casualty care training, organizes personnel according to field medical station (野战医疗所) staffing structures, and arranges multidisciplinary expert duty rotations each day, ensuring that in the event of an emergency, personnel can rapidly assemble as a complete unit and reach the front-line treatment area.

This reporter observed the entire emergency care process at the treatment center and found that, compared with ordinary surgical emergency departments, both the patient intake procedures and the care standards are thoroughly "combat-loaded" (含战量):

Casualties brought in by ambulance all wear "electronic casualty tag wristbands" (电子伤票手环), which reference the format of field casualty tags (野战伤票) and intelligently record casualty information and treatment data; medical personnel simultaneously handle hospital admission and referral procedures, consistent with the processing procedures in field casualty care scenarios; and the configuration of the emergency operating room also substantially matches that of a field surgical vehicle (野战手术车).

"The difficulty in realistic combat medical support training (实战化卫勤练兵) lies in the word 'realistic,'" the hospital's leadership explained. The hospital has defined the War Trauma Treatment Center's mission as "building a new-type war trauma emergency care platform grounded in surgical emergency medicine and benchmarked to combat casualty care standards," with "rapid response and highly efficient emergency action" as its defining characteristics.

Since last year, the majority of casualties received at the treatment center have presented with injuries and conditions commonly seen on the battlefield — including skull and thoracic vertebral fractures, hemorrhagic shock, and heat stroke. Medical personnel have tempered their combat casualty care skills through these cases and have established a war trauma treatment case library. Medical personnel from relevant departments rotate through training once per year, and the overall level of war trauma care skills has steadily improved. Neurosurgeon Wang Bodong, drawing on the emergency care experience accumulated during his rotation at the treatment center, successfully performed a cross-specialty emergency surgery while on assignment at high altitude, saving the patient's life.

Original Chinese

第九六〇医院战创伤救治中心探索卫勤练兵新模式—— 急救室里拉响“战斗警报” ■解放军报记者朱柏妍特约记者汪学潮 “多名车祸伤员将在40分钟内送达医院，现启动批量伤员分级救治响应机制。”夏夜，联勤保障部队第960医院战创伤救治中心警报骤然响起，医护人员瞬间进入战斗状态。记者在现场看到，警报拉响时，正在值班备勤的医生许林，接到该救治中心急救响应命令。他快步赶到救治一线，按照预案分组，了解伤员情况，调试仪器、检查设备……救护车抵达前，许林与多名医护人员已进入救护状态。该救治中心大厅内，收治准备工作井然有序。很快，第一批伤员送抵医院。经检查，一名伤员伤情严重，许林和同组医护人员立即将其转入急救手术室实施手术。和平年代，没有战伤伤员，战救技能如何锤炼？该救治中心蹚出一条新路：把每一次创伤救治当作战伤救治来练。许林告诉记者，医院将日常伤员救护与战救训练有机融合，按照野战医疗所人员编组，每天安排多学科专家值班，确保遇有紧急情况，可迅速整建制赶到救治一线。记者观察该救治中心伤员急救全程发现，与普通外科急诊相比，无论收治流程还是救护标准，都“含战量”十足—— 救护车送来的伤员均佩戴“电子伤票手环”，参照野战伤票形式，智能录入伤员信息与处置数据；医护人员伴随办理入院、转诊手续，与野战救护场景下处置程序一致；急救手术室的设置，也与野战手术车配置基本吻合。 “实战化卫勤练兵难点在‘实’。”该医院领导介绍，医院将战创伤救治中心职责定义为“打造以外科急诊为基础、以战伤急救为标准的新型战创伤急救平台”，“快速反应、高效应急”是其显著特点。去年以来，该救治中心收治的伤员中，多数为颅骨、胸椎骨折及失血性休克、热射病等战场常见伤病，医护人员在任务中淬炼战救技能，并建立战创伤救治案例库；相关科室医护人员每年轮训一遍，整体战创伤救护技能水平稳步提升。神经外科医生王伯栋，凭借在救治中心轮训期间积累的急救经验，在高原执行任务期间完成跨专业急诊手术，成功挽救患者生命。