Nowadays, when Ukraine for two years participate in military actions in Donbass, army faces new issues and tasks.

Of course, the first and most important condition for a successful military operation is arming and soldiers experience. But no less important is the level of military medical services, on which the life of men often depend.

Israel has extensive experience in military medicine and continues to evolve, as required by the reality. Today I want to tell you about how military medicine in Israel works. I believe that this experience will be useful for Ukraine.

Much attention is paid by Israeli military medics to emergency medicine and medical assistance to wounded soldiers. Doctors have the term "golden hour", when there is a chance to save the soldier, in a timely manner by providing him medical care. Full and timely medical care saves the lives of more than 90% of the wounded. So Israeli doctors were able to reduce this hour to 43 minutes. Naturally, this has led to a rapid reduction of combat losses: according to statistics, the loss amounted to no more than 6% in August last year.

This high figure is achieved through the special system of military medicine: in the Israeli army doctor is a participant of all offensive operations, medic is situated directly next to the soldiers during the military operations. Yes, medics go into battle with the soldiers. In armies of most countries first aid is provided to soldiers by paramedics and nurses, and large-scale medical assistance is provided after the evacuation. Israel decided that it would be rational to help soldiers immediately and on the spot. Therefore, Israeli wounded soldiers received medical treatment in about two minutes after the injury.

Israeli army provides the most advanced medical equipment and medicines. For example, Israeli medics directly on the battlefield inject plasma powder in case of significant blood loss, without waiting for donor transfusions. Or can use "zipper" for open wounds. Also on their arms are automatic syringes of morphine, portable ultrasound scanners for the detection of bleeding, carbon dioxide detectors to check the efficiency of artificial respiration.

Clearly, all these methods are not final treatments. But they help in an emergency to save life of a soldier and that is the most important.

In addition, it is important to evacuate wounded soldier from the battlefield: in Israeli army evacuation engaged in special vehicles – tank-bulances and helicopters, and soon even by drones. One example: in 2006 during the war in Lebanon, Israeli helicopters evacuated 360 wounded from the battlefield. Flight to the hospital lasted about 3.5 hours. Since all of these machines have been equipped with medical equipment, the medics assistance was provided to injured on board. As a result of this operation not a single Israeli soldier was lost.

It is necessary to pay special attention and filling of first aid kits of Israeli soldier. Today, tourniquet is traditional remedy bleeding. But Israel rejected it and uses the so-called "turnstile": it is a nylon sleeve with a special pen, inside it is a tourniquet. This design allows the soldier to independently and quickly put a bandage even with one hand. Using of this device is taught at the very beginning of the service. In addition, Israeli soldiers use modern hemostatic agents that are imbued with blood clotting drugs.

And Israeli soldiers used a new means "aktik": magic candy is a hundred times stronger analgesic effect than morphine and is the strongest pain disappears for more than an hour. This can significantly ease the suffering of wounded and reduce losses from the painful shocks.

All this know-how arose not only from the need to maintain permanent military actions, but also because Israel values life of every soldier. And now, just think of the first aid kit of Ukrainian ATO fighter.