Page 4 - Journal of Special Operations Medicine - Spring 2016

by Allison Esposito, Managing Editor

TIMELINESS In his Infectious Diseases series, Burnett has provided
a summation of current knowledge regarding the Zika
Timeliness in healthcare is the system’s capacity to virus. Although originally written a few months ago, he
provide care quickly after a need is recognized. Lack has updated the information to give readers a clear pic-
of timeliness can result in emotional distress, physi- ture of what is known and what needs to be determined
cal harm, and higher treatment costs. Inherent in the about this growing international health threat.
timely provision of care is the ability to provide the
most accurate, up-to-date care available. The JSOM
is committed to providing our readers with the best VIEWPOINTS
medical information from the leaders in their fields.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a
chain or freed a human soul.
Finalized in January 2016, the TCCC Guidelines —Mark Twain
change “Management of External Hemorrhage in
Tactical Combat Casualty Care: The Adjunctive Use We are fortunate to have four Editorials and two Let-
of XStat Compressed Hemostatic Sponges” by Sims ters to the Editor in this issue. The topics range from
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and colleagues is given in its entirety, along with in- SOLCUS after-action report, the USASOC Division of
struction slides in TCCC Updates.
Science and Technology, and traumatic brain injury to
“power to the people,” needle decompression, and
hemorrhage control. Please let us know your opinions
and comments on what you have read here, too.

THE BASICS

Our feature articles lead with three contributions re-
garding tourniquets: “Preliminary Comparison of New
and Established Tactical Tourniquets in a Manikin Hem-
orrhage Model,” by Gibson et al.; “Testing of Junctional
Tourniquets by Medics of the Israeli Defense Force in
Control of Simulated Groin Hemorrhage,” by Chen et
al.; and “Evaluation and Testing of Junctional Tourni-
quets by Special Operation Forces Personnel: A Com-
parison of the Combat Ready Clamp and the Junctional
Emergency Treatment Tool,” by Theodoridis et al.

Plackett and colleagues bring us “Accuracy and Reli-
ability of Triage at the Point of Injury During Operation
Enduring Freedom,” and Hampton and coworkers dis-
cuss “SOLCUS: Update on Point-of-Care Ultrasound in
Special Operations Medicine.”

CASE REPORTS
A new category of article, In Brief, is introduced in this
issue. The authors, Kragh and coworkers, provide a Guthrie and Chorba provide a case report on the “Phys-
“Short Report Comparing Generation 6 Versus Proto- ical Therapy Treatment of Chronic Neck Pain,” and a
type Generation 7 Combat Application Tourniquet in series of cases are provided to illustrate “Compensa-
a Manikin Hemorrhage Model” to inform readers of tory Reserve for Early and Accurate Prediction of He-
the latest data. modynamic Compromise” by Stewart and colleagues.

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