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Bringing Together the Educational Interests of Special Operations and Tactical Medicine
JSOM
Winter 2015, Vol 15, Edition 4 ISSN: 1553-9768

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From the Publisher and Editor i HUMAN PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION
In This Issue ii US Military Dietary Protein Recommendations 89
From the SOMA President iii Stefan M. Pasiakos, PhD; John J. Sepowitz, MS, RD; et al.
Meet the Experts vi INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Peer-Review Board vii Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever 96
Mark W. Burnett, MD
CASE REPORT Middle East Respiratory Syndrome 99
Hypolipidemia in a Special Operations Candidate: 1 Akira A. Shishido, MD; Andrew Letizia, MD
Case Report and Review of the Literature
Jonathan E. Strain, MD; John A. Vigilante, MD; INJURY PREVENTION
Nicholas W. DiGeorge, DO Injuries and Footwear (Part 1): Athletic Shoe History 102
and Injuries in Relation to Foot Arch Height and
FEATURE ARTICLES Training in Boots
The Combat Medic Aid Bag: 2025 7 Joseph J. Knapik, ScD; Rodney Pope, PhD; et al.
Frank K. Butler, MD; Lorne H. Blackbourne, MDk et al. OPERATIONAL MEDICINE IN THE AUSTERE
Testing Tourniquet Use in a Manikin Model: 21 ENVIRONMENT
Two Improvised Methods Real-World Experience With Three Point-of-Care 109
William E. Lyles III, BA; John F. Kragh Jr, MD; et al. Blood Analyzers in Deployed Environments
John Peffer, MD; Nathan Ley, PA-C; John Wuellner, MD; et al.
Different Width and Tightening System Emergency 28
Tourniquets on Distal Limb Segments PICTURE THIS
Piper L. Wall, DVM, PhD; Sheryl M. Sahr, MD; et al. Recovery of Bacteria and Fungi From a Leg Wound 113
Michael A. Washington, PhD; Jason C. Barnhill, PhD; et al.
Comprehensive Performance Nutrition for 40 PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
Special Operations Forces Application of Medical Intelligence Prep of the 117
Karen A. Daigle, MS, RD, CSSD, CSCS; et al.
Environment: A Review of Operational Vignettes
Evaluating Alternatives to Traditional Cotton 54 Jennifer B. Caci, MS, Vignette Editor
Laparotomy Sponges for Blood Absorption in the PROLONGED FIELD CARE
Austere and Mobile Surgical Environment Deconstructing the Definition of Prolonged Field Care 125
Max R. Sirkin, MD; Patrick Cook, DO; Kurt G. Davis, MD Sean Keenan, MD
OK, Doc . . . What Do I Really Have? Posttraumatic 59 BOOK REVIEW
Stress Disorder Versus Traumatic Brain Injury Vietnam 1968–1969: A Battalion Surgeon’s Journal 126
Xavier A. Figueroa, PhD; James K. Wright, MD
Review by COL (Ret) Warner “Rocky” D. Farr, MD, MPH
Garrison Clinical Setting Inadequate for Maintenance 67
of Procedural Skills for Emergency Medicine Physicians: FROM THE SEMA 127
A Cross-Sectional Study SPECIAL TALK: AN INTERVIEW
Steven G. Schauer, DO; Shawn M. Varney, MD; et al. Frank Butler on Serving the Operational Medicine 130
Remote Telementored Ultrasound-Directed 71 Community
Compression to Potentially Accelerate Hemostasis Interviewed by John F. Kragh Jr, MD
in Exsanguinating Junctional Vascular Injuries STOP THE BLEED – HARTFORD CONSENSUS
Andrew W. Kirkpatrick, MD; Jessica Lynn McKee, MSc; et al. Introduction by Dr Frank K. Butler 133
THERE I WAS Articles by Drs Jacobs, Fabbri, Eastman, Butler, 136
Fever and Thrombocytopenia in a Returning Soldier 75 Holcomb, Rhee, Levy, and McSwain
John W. Downs, MD, MPH; Peter J. Biggane, BS Letter from Dr Matthew J. Levy, 163
Stop the Bleeding Coalition
EDITORIAL
Providers Face Challenges Maintaining 79 TCCC UPDATES
Deployment-Ready Skills at Garrison Hospitals International Association of Police Chiefs
Steven G. Schauer, DO; Shawn M. Varney, MD Conference Presentation 164
LETTER TO THE EDITOR TACMED UPDATES
"Rationale for Use of Intravenous Acetaminophen 81 Building Community Resilience to Dynamic 175
in Special Operations Medicine" Mass Casualty Incidents
F. Bowling, 18D, ATP
PHOTO GALLERY 178
LETTER TO THE EDITOR REPLY 82
Edward Scott Vokoun, MD DIRECTORY OF ADVERTISERS 181
ONGOING SERIES UPCOMING EVENTS
CLINICAL CORNER 83 Be sure to sign up for our eNewsletter and visit the JSOM website
Taser and Conducted Energy Weapons at: https://www.JSOMonline.org/Professional_Development.php
Thomas G. LeClair, CD, BA, ACP, EMT-T; Tony Meriano, MD for a list of upcoming courses and conferences.
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