Concisely written, practical knowledge written by veterans of combat surgery

Richly illustrated with full color images illustrating difficult techniques and situations

Designed to provide the most necessary and practical knowledge needed by Surgeons working on the front lines

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Tactical Combat Casualty Care.- Combat Triage and Mass Casualty Management.- Initial Management Priorities: Beyond ABCDE.- Damage Control Resuscitation.- To Operate or Image? (Pulling the Trigger).- Ultrasound in Combat Trauma.- The Bowel: Contamination, Colostomies, and Combat Surgery.- Liver and Spleen Injury Management in Combat .- Pancreatic and Duodenal Injuries (Don't Mess with the...).- Operative Management of Renal Injuries.- Major Abdominal Vascular Trauma.- To Close or Not to Close: Managing the Open Abdomen.- Dismounted Complex Blast Injury Management.- Thoracic Approaches and Incisions.- Lung Injuries in Combat.- Diagnosis and Management of Penetrating Cardiac Injury.- Thoracic Vascular Injuries: Operative Management in "Enemy" Territory.- Chest Wall and Diaphragm Injury.- Soft Tissue Wounds and Fasciotomies.- Extremity Fractures and the Mangled Extremity.- Traumatic Amputations.- Peripheral Vascular Injuries.- The Neck.- Genitourinary Injuries (Excluding Kidney).- Neurosurgery for Dummies.- Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurocritical Care.- Spine Injuries.- Face and Head (Non-Ocular) Injury.- Managing Eye Trauma in the Combat Environment.- Burn Care in the Deployed Setting.- The Pediatric Patient in Wartime.- The Combat Hospital ICU.- Postoperative Resuscitation.- TEG/ROTEM Driven Resuscitation in Trauma.- Monitoring.- Ventilator Management: A Practical Approach to Respiratory Failure in Combat.- Practical Approach to Combat-Related Infections and Antibiotics.- Patient Transfer, En-route Care, and Critical Care Air Transport Team (CCATT).- The Homefront: Role 4 and 5 Care.- Active Shooter and Intentional Mass Casualty Events.- Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC): Principles and Practice.- Humanitarian and Local National Care.- Expectant and End of Life Care in a Combat Zone.- Trauma System Development and the Joint Trauma System.- The Next Generation of Hemorrhage Therapy.- Resident Readiness and Training the Surgeon for Battlefield Care.- The Deployed Advanced Care Provider.- Military Civilian Collaboration for National Preparedness During Peace and War.- Battlefield Resuscitation of the Future.- Non-Conventional Forward Surgical Elements.- Appendix A. Improvise, Adapt, Overcome: Field Expedient Methods in a Forward Environment.- Appendix B. Burn Charts and Orders.- Appendix C. Resources, References, and Readiness.- Appendix D. "C" BNRE Primer for Surgeons.