Emergency War Surgery; Second United States Revision of the Emergency War Surgery NATO Handbook
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. The nation is now faced with a fast-moving highly mobile, remote control type of warfare which require major changes in the management of war casualties. Plans for the care of the wounded must be laced with a generous sprinkling of multiple alternatives and options, ranging from immediate air or surface evacuation with delayed suboptimal definitive surgical care to the more standard, early definitive treatment in a combat hospital. the latter is optimal the former, however, may be forced by the tactical situation. The advice, counsel, and contributions of this outstanding soldier, surgeon, and citizen are truly appreciated. His prologue to the Second United States Edition was prominently included. This revised edition represents the contribution of talented and gifted health professionals from the military services as well as from the civilian sector. Several chapters have been completely rewritten and two new chapters have been added to this edition. In an attempt to maintain perspective and continuity between this and the First United states Edition of the Emergency War Surgery NATO Handbook, Professor T.J. Whelan Was asked to write a "bridge" between his and this edition. Condition: Good.
Keywords: War Surgery, Military Medicine, Thermal Burns, Cold Injury, Crush Injury, Radiation, Resuscitation, Triage, Battalion Aid, Amputations, Craniocerebral Wounds, Maxillofacial, Missile Injury, Burn Injury, Blast Injury, Chemical Injury, Mass Casualties
ISBN: 9781607962649
[Book #74643]
Price: $60.00