Tactical Combat Casualty Care and Wound Treatment

by U.S. Department of Defense

Overview

Military surgeons must assume a leadership role in combat casualty care in circumstances that are far less than ideal. This handbook provides much of the information needed to tackle these issues and features state-of-the-art principles and practices of forward trauma surgery as used by military physicians in far flung locations around the globe. In this volume you’ll learn such integral skills as:

• Tactical field care
• Field dressing
• Applying pressure dressing
• Treating burns
• Treating inhalation injuries
• And more!

Tactical Combat Casualty Care and Wound Treatment is the most trusted and up-to-date manual offered by the Department of Defense for military medical personnel in the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781634509602
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	01/19/2016
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

The US Department of Defense oversees the US Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. It is headquartered at the Pentagon.
The United States Department of Defense ( DOD or DoD ) is the federal department charged with coordination and supervising all agencies and functions of the government relating directly to national security and the military. The DOD is headquartered at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 Tactical Combat Casualty Care 5

Exercises

2 Controlling Bleeding from an Extremity

Section I General 5

Section II Controlling External Bleeding From a Wound on an Extremity 21

Section III Applying an Improvised Tourniquet 27

Section IV Controlling Bleeding From an Amputation 31

Section V Treating Internal Bleeding in an Extremity 35

Exercises

3 Treating Chest Injuries.

Section I General 3

Section II Treating Open Chest Wounds 13

Section III Treating Closed Chest Injuries 25

Exercises

4 Treating Abdominal Injuries

Section I General 2

Section II Treating Open Abdominal Wounds 11

Section III Treating an Acute Abdomen 14

Exercises

5 Treating Head Injuries

Section I Open and Closed Head Injuries 4

Section II Treating Open Head Wounds 10

Section III Treating Other Injuries 15

Exercises