Bringing Together the Educational Interests of Special Operations and Tactical Medicine
Winter 2016, Vol 16, Edition 4
ISSN: 1553-9768
Journal of Special Operations Medicine™
From the Publisher and Editor
In this Issue
News to Use
From the SOMA President
Meet the Experts
Peer-Review Board
Learning Curves of Emergency Tourniquet Use Exploring for Utility in Training (7 - 14)
Significant Pressure Loss Occurs Under Tourniquets Within Minutes of Application (15 - 26)
Postural Stability of Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen With Tactical Gear (27 - 31)
Trigger-Point Dry Needling for the SOF Medic (33 - 39)
Red-Green Versus Blue Tactical Light: A Direct, Objective Comparison (54 - 58)
Pretrauma Interventions in Force Health Protection: Introducing the "Left of Bang" Paradigm (59 - 63)
Human Performance Optimization
Caffeine and Performance (64 - 70)
Infectious Diseases
Tularemia (71 - 73)
Injury Prevention
Load Carriage-Related Paresthesias: Part 1: Rucksack Palsy and Digitalgia Paresthetica (74 - 79)
Picture This
Garlic Burn to the Face (80 - 81)
Preventive Medicine
Prolonged Field Care
Prolonged Field Care for the Winter 2016 Edition (86)
Management of Burn Wounds Under Prolonged Field Care (87 - 98)
Prolonged Field Care of a Casualty With Penetrating Chest Trauma (99 - 101)
Case of a 5-Year-Old Foreign National Who Sustained Penetrating Abdominal Trauma (110 - 113)
Embedded Fragment Removal and Wound Debridement in a Non-US Partner Force Soldier (114 - 116)
SOFsono Ultrasound
Ultrasound-Guided Triage (117)
Special Talk: An Interview
From the Trails of Afghanistan to the Streets of America: COL (Ret) Andy Pennardt on Frontline Medical Care (118 - 120)
The World of Special Operations Medicine
Portuguese 2nd Parachute Battalion (122 - 124)
Blood and Belonging: Journeys Into the New Nationalism (126)
Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care 7-8 September 2016: Meeting Highlights (130 - 131)
National TEMS Initiative and Council NTIC Competency Domains/The TACMED Challenge! (132)