Otolaryngology/head and neck surgery combat casualty care in operation Iraqi freedom and operation enduring freedom / editor in chief Daniel E. Banks & Timothy K. Jones.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Banks, Daniel E., editor.

Jones, Timothy K., editor.

United States. Department of the Army. Office of the Surgeon General, issuing body.

Borden Institute (U.S.), issuing body.

Series:

Textbooks of Military Medicine Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Otorhinolaryngologic Surgical Procedures.

Neck Injuries--therapy.

Neck Injuries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (711 pages) : illustrations, photographs.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Fort Sam Houston, Texas : Borden Institute, 2015.

Summary:

This book will impart lessons learned in the treatment thousands of head and neck injuries among service members and civilians in OEF/OIF. Topics covered are principles and demographics of head and neck surgery, military-unique issues and mass casualties, ballistics of injury, effects of weapons and body armor, pathophysiology, emergency management including maintaining airway and hemorrhage control, and techniques of acute and delayed surgery for blunt and penetrating injury, including preoperative planning, imaging and exploration, and procedures to repair soft tissue, vascular, craniofacial skeletal, laryngotracheal, pharyngoesophageal, mandibular, otologic, and nasal trauma. Military physicians, soldiers and their families that may have received medical treatment for these types of traumas may be interested in this volume. Medical students also may be interested in this volume for research.

Contents:

Intro

front matter

Sect I Chap 1

Sect I Chap 2

Sect I Chap 3

Sect I Chap 4

Sect II Chap 5

Sect II Chap 6

Sect II Chap 7

Sect II Chap 8

Section III Chap 9

Section III Chap 10

Section IV Chap 11

Section IV Chap 12

Section IV Chap 13

Section IV Chap 14

Section IV Chap 15

Sect V Chap 16

Sect V Chap 17

Sect V Chap 18

Sect V Chap 19

Sect V Chap 20

Sect V Chap 21

Sect V Chap 22

Sect V Chap 23

Sect V Chap 24

Sect V Chap 25

Sect V Chap 26

Sect V Chap 27.

Sect V Chap 28

Sect V Chap 29

Sect V Chap 30

Sect V Chap 31

Sect V Chap 32

Sect VI Chap 33

Sect VI Chap 34

Sect VI Chap 35

Sect VI Chap 36

Sect VI Chap 37

Sect VI Chap 38

Sect VI Chap 39

Sect VI Chap 40

Sect VI Chap 41

Sect VI Chap 42

Sect VI Chap 43

Sect VI Chap 44

Sect VII Chap 45

Sect VII Chap 46

Sect VII Chap 47

Sect VII Chap 48

back matter.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-16-093906-2

OCLC:

994864096