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from the
PUBLISHER and EDITOR

ur sincere congratulations to COL At this time, we have not yet made a print
O(Ret) Warner “Rocky” D. Farr, MD, version available for the Spanish 9th Edi-
MPH, on his selection to be inducted as tion. However, if you are interested in a
a Distinguished Member of the Special print Spanish version of the ATP-P 9th
Forces Regiment. The ceremony is 20 Michelle DuGuay Landers Edition, please send an email inquiry to
May at the United States Army John F. publisher@jsomonline.org. If there is sub-
Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, John F. Ken- stantial interest, we can have the print version available at
nedy Hall. We share the sentiment of your peers who wish SOMSA.
to thank you for mentoring a generation of SOF docs!
For now, to subscribe to the tablet or digital version of the
Your direct leadership and guidance resulted in ATP-P 9th Edition–Spanish, please follow the link to our
unmatched medical support to the guys in the field . . . subscription page at https://www.jsomonline.org/OSS8/sign
You were always there for them and the Regiment . . . up.php. If you already have an account with the JSOM, you
This is a tremendous honor, and we THANK YOU for can log into your account and add the Spanish ATP by click-
your exceptional service to our country!
ing on the Subscriptions tab of the Accounts page.
We are very pleased to inform you that the University of
Pittsburgh has recently updated their BS Please be sure to visit our “JSOM en Espa-
in Emergency Medicine to officially ñol” at www.JSOMonline.org. It has all the
recognize the SOCOM ATP card. Di- TCCC, TacMed, and Prolonged Field Care
rect any questions to Walt Alan Stoy, (PFC) articles translated into Spanish.
PhD, EMT-P, CCEMTP, professor
and director of emergency medicine at After 13 years of continuous combat
the School of Health and Rehabilita- operations, the US Military has made a
tion Sciences at the University of Pitts- number of major advances in casualty
burgh and director of Educational and care. The United States and other coali-
International Emergency Medicine at tion nations, such as the United King-
the Center for Emergency Medicine. Dr dom, Canada, Australia, and many
Stoy can be reached at stoy@pitt.edu or others, have developed a superb combat
412-647-4667. trauma system and achieved unprec-
edented casualty survival rates start-
We are excited to announce that the JSOM ing with effective medical care at the
Advanced Tactical Paramedic Protocols point of injury. There is a call to ac-
Handbook (ATP-P) 9th Edition is NOW celerate military-to-civilian transla-
available in Spanish in both digital and tab- tion of these advances in prehospital
let format. We want to sincerely thank Juanjo trauma care information, training, and equip-
Payo and his team for all the hard work they ment to medical providers in other austere environments.
are doing for JSOM and the CoTCCC in translating these The Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) will host a two-
vital documents. day preconference (30 and 31 July 2016), Tactical Combat
Casualty Care: Transitioning Lessons Learned from the
The Spanish version of the ATP-P Handbook contains all Battlefield to other Austere Environments, at the World
of the information and images in our English resource: Tac- Congress on Wilderness Medicine, Telluride Conference
tical Trauma Protocols (TTP); Tactical Medical Emergency Center, Telluride, CO. For more information, go to: http://
Protocols (TMEPS); Canine-TCCC; the Recommended www.wms.org/conferences/telluride/.
Drug List (RDL) (which covers the side-effects/adverse ef-
fects/contraindications/warnings, adult and pediatric dos- Be sure you are following the JSOM on Facebook, Twitter,
ages, and the protocols to which they are relevant); Burn LinkedIn, and Instagram. It’s an instantaneous and infor-
and Nerve Charts, and the Military Acute Concussion Eval- mative way to connect with us and stay up to date on all
uation (MACE) and prehospital Combat Medic/Corpsman of the latest JSOM news, information, new technology, up-
Algorithm (CMA) Charts that are approved for use by the dates regarding SOF, TCCC, and TEMS medicine, upcom-
ATP. In addition, the Spanish version contains an English- ing conferences, and more!
to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English index of medical terms. —Michelle DuGuay Landers