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Bringing Together the Educational Interests of Special Operations and Tactical Medicine
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Spring 2015, Vol 15, Edition 1 ISSN: 1553-9768

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From the Publisher and Editor i ONGOING SERIES
In This Issue ii Human Performance Optimization
Meet the Experts vi Mindfulness: A Fundamental Skill for Performance 93
Peer-Review Board vii Sustainment and Enhancement
Dedication viii Patricia A. Deuster, PhD, MPH; Eric Schoomaker, MD, PhD
CASE REPORTS Preventive Medicine
Return to Duty After Severe Bilateral 1 Staphylococcus sciuri: An Entomological Case Study 100
Lower Extremity Trauma and a Brief Review of the Literature
Andrew J. Sheean, MD; Johnny Owens, BS, MPT; et al. Michael A. Washington, PhD; Lauren Kajiura, MS; et al.
Special Operations Soldier With Cardiac Family History 7 Operational Medicine in the Austere Environment
Millee Singh, DO; Anne Kroman, DO; Julie Singh, MS; et al. MEDCAN–GRO: Medical Capacity for 105
African Nations–Growing Regional Operability
Decompression Sickness Following 11 Melissa L. Givens, MD, MPH; April Verlo, MSPH, REHS/RS
Altitude-Chamber Training
Nicholas M. Studer, MD, EMT-P; et al. Picture This
A Painful Rash in an Austere Environment 113
FEATURE ARTICLES John S. (Josh) Hellums, MD, MPH; Kyle Klapperich
Optimizing the Use of Limb Tourniquets in Tactical 17 Clinical Corner
Combat Casualty Care: TCCC Guidelines Change 14-02 Abdominal Pain 118
Stacy A. Shackelford, MD; Frank K. Butler Jr, MD; Joshua Banting, Tony Meriano, MD
John F. Kragh Jr, MD; et al.
Injury Prevention
Laboratory Testing of Emergency Tourniquets 32 The Importance of Physical Fitness for 123
Exposed to Prolonged Heat Injury Prevention: Part 1
John P. Davinson, MS, PA-C; John F. Kragh Jr, MD; et al.
Joseph J. Knapik, ScD
Initial Tourniquet Pressure Does Not Affect 39 Infectious Diseases
Tourniquet Arterial Occlusion Pressure Cutaneous Leishmaniasis 128
Sean E. Slaven, BS; Piper L. Wall, DVM, PhD; Mark W. Burnett, MD
Jacob H. Rinker, MD; Meghan E. Halub, MD; et al.
BOOK REVIEW
Blood Flow Restriction Rehabilitation for 50
Extremity Weakness: A Case Series Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits: How Masters of 130
Christina Hylden, MD; Travis Burns, MD; Irregular Warfare Have Shaped Our World
Daniel Stinner, MD; Johnny Owens, BS, MPT Review by COL (Ret) Warner “Rocky” D. Farr, MD, MPH
The Effects of Movement on Hemorrhage 57 FROM THE SOMA PRESIDENT 131
When QuikClot Combat Gauze Is Used in a FROM THE NATO SOF SURGEON
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Hypothermic Hemodiluted Porcine Model 132
Jose Garcia-Blanco, MD; Brian Gegel, DNAP; James Burgert, SPECIAL TALK: AN INTERVIEW
DNAP; Sabine Johnson, MS; Don Johnson, PhD, RN
With Dr Richard Carmona 133
Review, Clinical Update, and Practice Guidelines 62 Interviewed by John F. Kragh Jr
for Excited Delirium Syndrome TCCC UPDATES
Kevin B. Gerold, DO, JD; Mark E. Gibbons, EMT-P;
Richard E. Fisette Jr, PA; Donald Alves, MD Selected Meeting Highlights from February 2015 136
CoTCCC Meeting
Operational Point-of-Care Ultrasound Review: 71 Dr Frank Butler; COL Lance Cordoni
Low-Cost Simulators and Resources for Advanced
Prehospital Providers TACMED UPDATES
Elliot M. Ross, MD; Travis Deaton, MD; et al. Spring Committee for Tactical Emergency 143
Casualty Care (C-TECC) Update
A Study of Prehospital Medical Documentation by 79 Reed Smith, MD; Joshua Bobko, MD; Geoff Shapiro, EMT-P;
Military Medical Providers During Precombat Training Brendan Hartford, EMT-P; David Callaway, MD
Adam B. McGarry, DSc, PA-C; et al. Establishing TEMS Training Standards for 146
Battlefield Analgesia: 85 Patrol Officers and Initial Responders
TCCC Guidelines Are Not Being Followed COL (Ret) Andre Pennardt, MD, FACEP
Steven G. Schauer, DO, RDMS; John B. Robinson, PA; PHOTO GALLERY
Robert L. Mabry, MD; Jeffrey T. Howard, PhD 148
LETTER TO THE EDITOR DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS 150
Only Break Glass in Case of War? 90 UPCOMING EVENTS
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