Front Line Surgery: A Practical Approach - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441960783 ISBN 13: 9781441960788

Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc., 2010

Synopsis

Both editors are active duty officers and surgeons in the U.S. Army. Dr. Martin is a fellowship trained trauma surgeon who is currently the Trauma Medical Director at Madigan Army Medical Center. He has served as the Chief of Surgery with the 47th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) in Tikrit, Iraq in 2005 to 2006, and most recently as the Chief of Trauma and General Surgery with the 28th CSH in Baghdad, Iraq in 2007 to 2008. He has published multiple peer-reviewed journal articles and surgical chapters. He presented his latest work analyzing trauma-related deaths in the current war and strategies to reduce them at the 2008 annual meeting of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Beekley is the former Trauma Medical Director at Madigan Army Medical Center. He has multiple combat deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan, and has served in a variety of leadership roles with both Forward Surgical Teams (FST) and Combat Support Hospitals (CSH).

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About the Author

Matthew J. Martin, MD, FACS Trauma Director Madigan Army Medical Center Deployment Experience: Chief of Surgery 47th Combat Support Hospital Tikrit, Iraq 2005-2006 Chief, General Surgery and Trauma Theater Consultant for General Surgery 28th Combat Support Hospital Baghdad, Iraq 2007-2008 Alec C. Beekley, MD, FACS Staff Surgeon Madigan Army Medical Center Deployment Experience: Staff Surgeon 102nd Forward Surgical Team Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan 2002-2003 Chief of Surgery 912th Forward Surgical Team Al Mussayib, Iraq 2004 Staff Surgeon 31st Combat Support Hospital Baghdad, Iraq 2004 Director Deployed Combat Casualty Research Team 28th Combat Support Hospital Baghdad, Iraq 2007

From the Back Cover

Front Line Surgery is designed to provide practical insights for surgeons whose areas of practice demand quick best-outcome based solutions to complex and urgent clinical problems. Both editors are active duty officers and surgeons with multiple tours in Iraq. Each chapter provides detailed instructions and combat/emergency surgical principles with multiple detailed illustrations. While the focus is clearly clinical, the authors also provide clinical pearls in both traditional and non-traditional narrative. Top Ten Combat Trauma Lessons1. Patients die in the ER, and2. Patients die in the CT scanner;3. Therefore, a hypotensive trauma patient belongs in the operating room ASAP.4. Most blown up or shot patients need blood products, not crystalloid. Avoid trying hypotensive resuscitation it s for civilian trauma.5. For mangled extremities and amputations, one code red (4 PRBC + 2 FFP) per extremity, started as soon as they arrive.6. Patients in extremis will code during rapid sequence intubation, be prepared, and intubate these patients in the OR (not in the ER) whenever possible.7. This hospital can go from empty to full in a matter of hours; don t be lulled by the slow periods.8. The name of the game here is not continuity of care, it is throughput. If the ICU or wards are full, you are mission incapable.9. MASCALs live or die by proper triage and prioritization starting at the door and including which x-rays to get, labs, and disposition.10. No Personal Projects!!! They clog the system, waste resources, and anger others. See #8 above.Reprinted from "The Volume of Experience (January 2008 edition)", a document written and continuously updated by U.S. Army trauma surgeons working at the Ibn Sina Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441960783
• ISBN 13: 9781441960788
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350
• Editor: Martin MD FACS Matthew J., Beekley MD FACS Alec C.