Washington, D.C. : Bethesda, Md. : San Antonio, Tex. Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Walter Reed Army Medical Center... 1991. First edition. First printing (stated). Hardcover. xv, 396 p. : ill. (some col. ); 29 cm. References. Index. More

Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1988. Second United States Revision. Stiff boards. xxiv, 446 pages. Illustrations. Tables. Glossary of Drugs with National Nomenclatures. Ex-library with usual library markings. Some markings blacked out. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 8 inches. If this surgical handbook is on the mark in achieving its objective, it will have provided you with specific guidelines or general principles governing the management of the foregoing 200 randomly selected battle casualties. There are some who will perceive this handbook guidance as too rigid or prescriptive, and leaving too little room for the individual surgeons judgment. On the contrary, these lessons and countless others have had to be learned and relearned by generations of surgeons pressed into the combat surgical environment. These very standardized approaches are necessitated by the echeloned management of casualties by many different practitioners at several different sites along a diverse evacuation chain, as opposed to the civil sector in which an individual surgeon can hold and manage an individual patient throughout that patient's entire course. These standardized approaches has repeatedly provided the highest standard of care to the greatest number of casualties. More