The Combat Hospital ICU
Kevin K. Chung Chief, Intensive Care Unit, 86th Combat Support Hospital, Ibn Sina, Baghdad, Iraq, 2008 Director, Joint Combat Casualty Research Team, Bagram, Afghanistan, 2012 Matthew J. Eckert Trauma Surgeon,…
Traumatic Amputations
Eric G. Puttler Commander, 102nd Forward Surgical Team, Baquba and Mosul, Iraq, 2004–2005 Stephen A. Parada Chief of Orthopedic Surgery, 10th Combat Support Hospital – NATO Hospital, Role IIE, Heart, Afghanistan,…
Managing Eye Trauma in the Combat Environment
Morohunranti O. Oguntoye Battalion Flight Surgeon, 1-501 Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, Jalalabad, Afghanistan 2012 BLUF Box (Bottom Line Up Front) 1. If there is head trauma, there is likely eye trauma….
Battlefield Resuscitation of the Future
Fig. 49.1 Multiple challenges and issues surrounding the central challenge of early combat deaths due to massive injuries and/or major hemorrhage This problem can be examined using the economic analogy…
The Bowel: Contamination, Colostomies, and Combat Surgery
Robert B. Lim Staff Surgeon, 126th Forward Surgical Team, OIF I, Iraq 2003 Chief Medical Officer, 126th Forward Surgical Team, OIF III, Kirkuk, Iraq 2004–2005 Chief Medical Officer, 250th Forward…
Thoracic Approaches and Incisions
Jeffrey A.Bailey Chief of Trauma (“Trauma Czar”), 332nd Expeditionary Medical Group, Air Force Theater Hospital, Balad Air Base, Iraq, 2006, 2007–2008 Director, US Central Command Joint Theater Trauma System, Operation…
Military-Civilian Collaboration for National Preparedness During Peace and War
Kyle N. Remick Joint Special Operations Aviation Component-North Flight Surgeon, Task Force Dagger, 2001–2002 Commander, 772nd FST, FOB Fenty, Afghanistan, 2008–2009 Deputy Deployed Medical Director, UK Role 3 Field Hospital,…
The Next Generation of Hemorrhage Therapy
Fig. 45.1 Junctional tourniquets approved for field use. (a) Combat Ready Clamp (CRoC), (b) Junctional Emergency Treatment Tool (JETT), (c) Sam Junctional Tourniquet Unfortunately, these devices are of limited use…
Expectant and End-of-Life Care in a Combat Zone
Robert M. Rush, Jr. Chief, General Surgery and Trauma, 10th Combat Support Hospital, Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1999 General Surgeon, 250th Forward Surgical Team, Kandahar Airfield, Kandahar, Afghanistan, 2001–2002 Deputy Commander, 250th…
Trauma System Development and the Joint Trauma System
Kirby R. Gross Deputy Commander Clinical Services 86th Combat Support Hospital 2003, Commander 772d Forward Surgical Team 2005–2006 Surgical Support to United States Special Operations Command 2006 and 2007 Trauma…
