Combat Casualty Care Secrets

For more than 30 years, the highly regarded Secrets Series® has provided students and practitioners in all areas of health care with concise, focused, and engaging resources for quick reference and exam review.

Combat Casualty Care Secrets offers practical, up-to-date coverage of the full range of essential topics in this dynamic and challenging field.

This first-of-its-kind resource features the Secrets’ popular question-and-answer format that also includes lists, tables, pearls, memory aids, and an easy-to-read style—making inquiry, reference, and review quick, easy, and enjoyable.

• Brings together the full scope of key combat casualty care concepts in one book—from the point of injury to prolonged field care to critical care evacuation
• The proven Secrets Series® format gives you the most return for your time—succinct, easy to read, engaging, and highly effective
• Offers practical coverage of the latest advances in combat casualty care from editors and contributors with extensive military experience, making this an essential resource for military medics, nurses, EMS fellows and medical directors, paramedics, and physicians.

• Contains sections on tactical combat casualty care; extraction and evacuation; prolonged field care principles and capabilities; advanced trauma care; disease and non-battle injury; chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents; and more
• Includes an entire section devoted to canine Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC), as well as chapters on special considerations such as mass casualty management, shipboard and maritime care, and environments such as urban, desert, and jungle
• Top 100 Secrets and Key Points boxes provide a fast overview of the secrets you must know for success in the field and on exams
• Serves as a test preparation reference during initial and recertification for military health care providers, as well as a handy resource during military deployment.

• Portable size makes it easy to carry with you for quick reference or review anywhere, anytime
• An eBook version is included with purchase.

  The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud