Five years of prolonged field care: prehospital challenges during recent French military operations.

Background: French military operations in the Sahel conducted since 2013 over more than 5 million square kilometers have challenged the French Military Health Service with specific problems in prolonged field care.

Study Design And Methods: To describe these challenges, we retrospectively analyzed the prehospital data from the first 5 years of these operations within a delimited area.

Results: One hundred eighty-three servicemen of different nationalities were evacuated, mainly as a result of explosions (73.