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Critical care medicine focuses on the provision of life or organ support in patients who are critically injured or ill and who require extensive monitoring, continuous care and treatment, as well as interventions to sustain life. Resuscitative care encompasses the aggressive management of life and limb-threatening injuries through interventions including emergency medical treatment, advanced trauma management and life-saving procedures to enable a patient to tolerate transport to the next level of care. In this document, "critical care" encompasses all aspects of resuscitative and critical care such as provided in medical treatment facilities (MTF) equipped with intensive care units and/or emergency departments. This document focuses on tactical doctrine for CCATT. DAFI 48-107V2 is the governing instruction on En Route Critical Care and provides critical information on CCATT Roles and Responsibilities, Unit Type Code (UTC) assignment, Operations, the Operational Support Flying (OSF) program, Training, Logistics and Equipment.