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Video by David Stewart, Thomas Webster

Innovations in Navy Medicine: A Starting Line for SPRINT

Visual Information Directorate-NMLPDC

March 27, 2024 | 3:37

This video is about the history of Navy Medicine’s Special Psychiatric Rapid Intervention Team (SPRINT). SPRINT provides short-term mental health support to a requesting command shortly after a traumatic event with the goal of preventing long-term psychiatric dysfunction and promoting maximum psychological readiness. Examples of scenarios in which a SPRINT response may be beneficial include:
- Natural or man-made disasters that result in loss of life, threatened loss of life, or displacement.
- Mishaps, accidents, or other traumatic events incidents involving loss of life or threatened loss of life.
- Fatalities witnessed by members of the command.

This Innovations in Navy Medicine video is part of an award-winning series dedicated to showcasing the important innovations and hallmarks in Navy Medicine history.

For more information about SPRINT: https://www.med.navy.mil/Naval-Medical-Forces-Atlantic/Links/Psychiatric-SPRINT/

Produced for BUMED Historian, Communications Directorate.