{"title":"The role of the operating department practitioner on board Role 2 Afloat.","authors":"A Stables, G Seal, S J Mercer","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Role 2 Afloat (R2A) is the Royal Navy (RN)’s Damage Control Resuscitation (DCR), including Damage Control Surgery,\ncapability at sea. There are currently three operating department practitioners (ODP) in the deployed team. This article describes\nthe role of the ODP in this team and the training which is required to fulfil this role.</p>","PeriodicalId":76059,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service","volume":"103 1","pages":"30-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the Royal Naval Medical Service","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The Role 2 Afloat (R2A) is the Royal Navy (RN)’s Damage Control Resuscitation (DCR), including Damage Control Surgery,
capability at sea. There are currently three operating department practitioners (ODP) in the deployed team. This article describes
the role of the ODP in this team and the training which is required to fulfil this role.