Combat Anesthesia: The First 24 Hours

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Contents

Front Matter

Section I. Background Knowledge

1. Physiology of Injury and Early Management of Combat Casualties
2. Preparing the Team
3. Military Prehospital Medicine

Section II. Practical Aspects of Anesthesia for Complex Military Trauma

4. Conducting a Complex Trauma Anesthetic
5. Vascular Access and Infusion Devices for Combat Anesthesia
6. Managing the Airway
7. Damage Control Resuscitation
8. Massive Transfusion in the Field
9. Perioperative and Interoperative Critical Care
10. Head and Neck Trauma
11. Thoracic Injury
12. Extremity, Junctional, and Pelvic Trauma
13. Critical Care and Anesthetic Care of Military Burn Casualties at Role 3 Facilities
14. Imaging
15. Management of Stable Casualties

Section III. Pain Management

16. The Physiology of Acute Pain
17. Why Pain Relief Is Important: The Physiological Response
18. Multimodal Analgesia for Specific Injury Patterns
19. Scoring Pain
20. Pain Medications
21. Advanced Pain Management Techniques
22. Regional Anesthesia and Coagulopathy of Trauma Shock
23. Acute Presentations of Chronic Pain Conditions
24. The Deployed Pain Service
25. Prehospital Analgesia
26. Combat Trauma Outcomes Tracking and Research

Section IV. Field Critical Care: Immediate Postoperative Management, Organ Preservation, and Preparation for Transfer

27. Receiving the Critical Care Patient
28. Damage Control Philosophy in Critical Care: Patient Management and Organ Support
29. Mechanical Ventilation of the Trauma Patient in the First 24 Hours
30. Ventilation for Tracheal Disruption and Bronchopleural Fistula
31. Renal Support in Military Operations
32. Diagnosis and Management of Hypotension and Shock in the Intensive Care Unit
33. Differential Diagnosis and Management of Fever in Trauma
34. Thromboembolic Disease and Management of Anticoagulation in Trauma
35. Intensive Care Unit Sedation in the Trauma Patient
36. Nutritional Support in the Intensive Care Unit
37. Management of Infection and Sepsis in the Intensive Care Unit
38. Air Transport of the Critical Care Patient
39. Basics of Pediatric Trauma Critical Care Management
40. Multidrug-Resistant Organisms and Infection Control Practice in the US Military Medical System

Section V. Special Circumstances

41. Humanitarian Operations and Aid Agency Anesthesia
42. Ethical Challenges of Deployed Military Critical Care
43. Military Pediatric Anesthesia
44. Anesthesia Considerations in the Elderly Population
45. Obstetric Anesthesia
46. Anesthesia Following Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Exposure

Section VI. Resources and Further Information

47. Current Anesthesia Equipment
48. Specialist Equipment for Pain Management
49. Resuscitation Guidelines
50. The Home Base: Landstuhl, Germany, and Hospitals in the Continental United States
51. The Home Base: Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and Other Hospitals in the United
    Kingdom

Abbreviations and Index

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