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determine color discrimination. Then they used a For this issue’s Preventive Medicine section, Wash-
timed color-determination visual test to determine ington and Blythe delve into “The Hidden Complexity
how quickly normal subjects can identify color cor- of Biological ‘Dirty Bombs’: Implications for Special
rectly, and the authors present their findings in “Red- Operations Medical Personnel,” and they provide a
Green Versus Blue Tactical Light: A Direct, Objective very helpful and intriguing discussion.
Comparison.”
This issue marks a landmark for the Prolonged Field
Care Working Group (WG), with submissions from mul-
tiple unique efforts that sprung from the original PFC
Tomahawk MC Red-Green WG analysis of PFC capabilities and knowledge gaps
light with Molle Tactical in the force. Included in this edition is a second Clini-
Retention System (TRS). cal Practice Guideline (CPG), on the practical manage-
ment of burn casualties in austere environments. This
issue also starts a relevant series with an introduction
to the Virtual Critical Care Consultation (VC3) service,
in addition to a case report from the field of a presenta-
tion of combat trauma that “morphed from a ‘typical‘
The inverted TCCC scenario into a complex case involving PFC. This
U-shaped curve case adroitly illustrates the operational constraints and
as it may relate
to caffeine and challenges of direct combat on patient management
performance. and serves as a reminder of the realities of combat.”

This issue’s SOFsono Ultrasound Series by Dare and
Hampton discusses the “Use of Ultrasound in Triage
for Transport.”
In our Ongoing Series Human Performance Opti-
mization, Yarnell and Deuster discuss “Caffeine and Our Special Talk: An Interview puts the spotlight
Performance.” on “From the Trails of Afghanistan to the Streets of
America: COL (Ret) Andy Pennardt on Frontline Medi-
In Infectious Diseases, Burnett describes tularemia, cal Care,” as interviewed by COL Dan Godbee.
which “is a disease of varied presentations that causes
illness primarily in animals, but . . . can also infect those The World of Special Operations Medicine high-
who spend time outdoors and is a known threat as a lights the Portuguese 2nd Parachute Battalion, with
bioterrorism agent.” glorious images by Ferreira.

In Injury Prevention: “Load Carriage–Related Paresthe- And Farr gives us the special treat
sias, Part 1: Rucksack Palsy and Digitalgia Paresthetica,” of two Book Reviews: Blood and
Knapik and colleagues present the first of a two-part Belonging: Journeys Into the New
article discussing load-carriage–related paresthesias, Nationalism, and
including brachial plexus lesions (rucksack palsy), digi- By, by Mark D.
talgia paresthetica, and meralgia paresthetica. Boyatt and One
Up. A Woman in
Oberle and coworkers describe a Action With the
“Garlic Burn to the Face” in this S.A.S., by Sarah
issue’s Picture This. The authors Ford.
describe the case of a 20-year-old
male military Servicemember who
presented to a military wound care
Well-demarcated clinic 7 days after applying a home-
lesion over patient’s made topical preparation of garlic
zygomatic area. to the zygomatic region of the right
The initial lesion is
noted in the center. side of his face.

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