Soldiers Angels Blog: Landstuhl-based trauma team makes history
US News • October 2010 • Views: 834
Landstuhl hospital’s own Dr. (Lt. Col.) Sandra Wanek made medical history this week. For the first time, an innovative and portable heart-lung machine was used in a combat evacuation, saving the life of a 22-year-old soldier wounded in Afghanistan. Dr. Waneck flew to Kandahar as part of Landstuhl’s Acute Lung Rescue Team, performed surgery there, and returned to Germany with him.