Bringing Together the Educational Interests of Special Operations and Tactical Medicine
Summer 2017, Vol 17, Edition 2
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
Foreign Language Short Course: Special Operations Clinical Research Fundamentals (12 - 17)
TCCC Guidelines Comprehensive Review and Update: TCCC Guidelines Change 16-03 (21 - 38)
Rapid Vision Correction by Special Operations Forces (60 - 64)
The Role I Resuscitation Team and Resuscitative Endovascular Balloon Occlusion of the Aorta (65 - 73)
The Sole Provider: Preparation for Deployment to a Medically Austere Theater (74 - 81)
Albumin for Prehospital Fluid Resuscitation of Hemorrhagic Shock in Tactical Combat Casualty Care (82 - 88)
Manikin Human-Patient Simulator Training (89 - 95)
Intubation of the Right Atrium During an Attempted Modified Surgical Airway in a Pig (96 - 100)
QuikClot® Combat Gauze® Use by Ground Forces in Afghanistan The Prehospital Trauma Registry Experience (101 - 106)
Clinical Corner
Headache (108 - 111)
Human Performance Optimization
Ketones and Human Performance (112 - 116)
Infectious Diseases
Mumps (117 - 119)
Injury Prevention
Stress Fractures: Etiology, Epidemiology, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Prevention (120 - 130)
Prolonged Field Care
Prolonged Field Care for the Summer 2017 Edition (131)
Acute Traumatic Wound Management in the Prolonged Field Care Setting (132 - 149)
SOFsono Ultrasound
Easy Scan and Easy Fix for the Shoulder Injury in a Difficult Environment (150)
Special Talk: An Interview
An Interview With SOMA President Steven Viola, SOCM, ATP, NREMT-P (151 - 152)
Unconventional Medicine
Introduction to the Unconventional Medicine Series (153)
Maggot Therapy for Wound Care in Austere Environments (154 - 162)
TCCC Updates: Two Decades of Saving Lives on the Battlefield: Tactical Combat Casualty Care Turns 20 (166 - 172)
TacMed Updates: K9 Tactical Emergency Casualty Care Direct Threat Care Guidelines (174 - 187)