Tactical Emergency Care: Military and Operational Out-of-Hospital Medicine

Features

• Broad mix of basic and advanced life support techniques and strategies—Features airway, breathing, and bleeding control.

  • Introduces students to some new (to the traditional out-of-hospital arena) approaches.

• Emphasis on penetrating trauma.

  • Familiarizes students with a big part of tactical medicine.

• Specialized content.

  • Examines how a prehospital provider might perform primary ambulatory care in the tactical environment.

• Up-to-date coverage.

  • Highlights the terrorist threat of weapons of mass destruction, including nerve gas, biological weapons, and nuclear bombs.

• Objectives and summaries—In each chapter.

  • Alerts students to key content, and gives them the opportunity to review their understanding of it, before moving on.

• Illustrative cases and margin notes throughout.

  • Draws students' attention to important material, and enhances their understanding of it.

• Numerous photographs.

  • Presents students with a comprehensive look into real-life emergency settings.

This book explores the new and rapidly developing area of tactical EMS, a special blend of prehospital care and military-style tactical operations encompassing field and wilderness medicine under austere and often hostile conditions. This is the first commercial book to focus on military medicine at the EMT/military medic level. KEY TOPICS: Focusing on the unique prehospital problems facing tactical EMT's, the book covers wounds from conventional weapons as well as nuclear biologic, and chemical weapons. Medical evacuation, environmental medicine and triage as well as ambulatory care and topics unique to EMT's providing law enforcement medical support are also addressed. MARKET:Medical information coders

Table of Contents

 1. The Tactical Environment of Care.


 2. Injury Mechanisms form Conventional Weapons.


 3. Care of Ballistic and Missile Casualties.


 4. Care of Blast and burn Casualties.


 5. Care of Chemical Casualties.


 6. Care of Biological Casualties.


 7. Care of Nuclear Casualties.


 8. Tactical Evacuation.


 9. Evacuation Care.


10. Tactical Triage.


11. Tactical Environmental and Preventative Medicine.


12. Basics of tactical Ambulatory care.


13. Tactical Law Enforcement Medical Support.


Appendix A. Medications for the Tactical Environment.


Appendix B. Chemical Agent Protective Measures.


Appendix C. Fluid and medication Procedures.


Appendix D. Advanced Airway procedures.


Appendix E. manual Carry and Lift Procedures.


Glossary.


Abbreviations.


Index.