Bringing Together the Educational Interests of Special Operations and Tactical Medicine
Winter 2015, Vol 15, Edition 4
ISSN: 1553-9768
Journal of Special Operations Medicine™
From the Publisher and Editor
In this Issue
News to Use
From the SOMA President
Meet the Experts
Peer-Review Board
Hypolipidemia in a Special Operations Candidate: Case Report and Review of the Literature (1 - 5)
Testing Tourniquet Use in a Manikin Model: Two Improvised Techniques (21 - 26)
Different Width and Tightening System: Emergency Tourniquets on Distal Limb Segments (28 - 38)
Comprehensive Performance Nutrition for Special Operations Forces (40 - 53)
OK, Doc . . . What Do I Really Have? Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Versus Traumatic Brain Injury (59 - 66)
Providers Face Challenges Maintaining Deployment-Ready Skills at Garrison Hospitals (79 - 80)
"Rationale for Use of Intravenous Acetaminophen in Special Operations Medicine" (81)
"Rationale for Use of Intravenous Acetaminophen in Special Operations Medicine": Reply (82)
Clinical Corner
Taser and Conducted Energy Weapons (83 - 88)
Human Performance Optimization
US Military Dietary Protein Recommendations: A Simple But Often Confused Topic (89 - 95)
Infectious Diseases
Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (96 - 98)
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (99 - 101)
Injury Prevention
Operational Medicine in the Austere Environment
Real-World Experience With Three Point-of-Care Blood Analyzers in Deployed Environments (109 - 112)
Picture This
Recovery of Bacteria and Fungi From a Leg Wound (113 - 116)
Preventive Medicine
Application of Medical Intelligence Prep of the Environment: A Review of Operational Vignettes (117 - 124)
Prolonged Field Care
Special Talk: An Interview
"Follow Admiral William Halsey's advice: Look around and see what needs to be done. Then do it." (130 - 132)
The Continuing Threat of Intentional Mass Casualty Events in the U.S. (142 - 145)
Hemorrhage Control Devices: Tourniquets and Hemostatic Dressings (153 - 156)
Intentional Mass Casualty Events: Implications for Prehospital Emergency Medical Services Systems (157 - 159)
Integrated Education of All Responders (160 - 162)
TCCC Updates: Translating Military Advances in Exdternal Hemorrhage Control to Law Enforcement (164 - 174)