Abstract
This article gives an overview of the Medical Emergency Response Team (MERT) while deployed in Afghanistan during Operation Herrick. The article is an information piece giving a brief history, training background and an overview on how the MERT works and is governed. It will give an insight into the clinical procedures used by a multi-disciplinary pre-hospital care team, the decision-making process and the advances made in military pre-hospital care. It is written from a paramedic's perspective and develops the understanding of how MERT and wider military developments during this conflict have impacted on civilian trauma care and what potential it has in the future.
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