Front Line Surgery

Preface.- Foreword.- Top Ten Combat Trauma Lessons.- Prehospital and Enroute Care.- Combat Triage and Mass Casualty Management.- Initial Management Priorities: Beyond ABCDE.- Damage Control Resuscitation.- To Operate or Image? (Pulling the Trigger) .- Ultrasound in Combat Trauma.- Contamination, Colostomies, and Combat Surgery.- Liver and Spleen Injury Management in Combat (Old School) .- Pancreatic and Duodenal Injuries (Sleep when you can.).- Operative Management of Renal Injuries.- Major Abdominal Trauma.- To Close or Not to Close: Managing the Open Abdomen.- Choice of Thoracic Incision.- Lung Injuries.- Diagnosis and Management of Penetrating Cardiac Injury.- Thoracic Vascular Injuries-Operative Management in "Enemy" Territory.- Chest Wall and Diaphragm Injury.- Soft Tissue Wounds and Fasciotomies.- Open Fractures.- Mangled Extremities and Amputations.- Peripheral Vascular Injuries.- The Neck.- Genitourinary Injuries (excluding kidney) .- Neurosurgery for Dummies.- Spine Injuries.- Face, Eye, and Ear Injuries.- Burn Care in the Field Hospital.- The Pediatric Patient in Wartime.- The Combat ICU Team.- Postoperative Resuscitation.- Monitoring.- Ventilator Management.- Practical Approach to Combat-related Infections and Antibiotics.- Stabilization and Transfer from the Far Forward Environment.- Humanitarian and Local National Care.- Expectant and End of Life Care in a Combat Zone.- Appendix A. Improvise, Adapt, and Overcome: Field Expedient Methods in a Forward Environment.- Appendix B. Burn Diagrams and Sample Burn Orders.- Appendix C. Resources, References, and Readiness.