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Calvano and his group discuss “Atropine Eye Drops: A Pro- ONGOING SERIES
posed Field Expedient Substitute in the Absence of Atropine
Autoinjectors.” In “Chest Seal Placement for Penetrating In Human Performance Optimization, Park and her colleagues
Chest Wounds by Prehospital Ground Forces in Afghanistan, discuss “A Shift From Resilience to Human Performance Op-
Schauer et al. sought to “evaluate adherence to TCCC guide- timization in Special Operations Training Advancements in
lines for chest seal placement among personnel deployed to Theory and Practice.”
Afghanistan” and found that “[m]ost of the chest seals placed
were not vented in accordance with guidelines, despite the
guideline update midway through the study period.”

Burnett describes “Hepatitis E,” which is “one of the most
common causes of acute icteric hepatitis in developing na-
tions, infecting tens of millions globally and resulting in more
than 50,000 deaths annually,” in Infectious Diseases.

In Injury Prevention, Knapik provides “Tools to Assess and
Reduce Injury Risk (Part 1).”

Cowles and colleagues discuss “Carfentanil: A New and Of-
ten Unrecognized Threat” in Law Enforcement & Tactical
Medicine.
Plasmodium vivax malaria is an essential yet elusive target of
tropical disease eradication efforts and is the focus of the lit- In Preventive Medicine, Gorzelnik and colleagues report on
erature review by Jarvis, “No Ordinary Sleeper Cell: Manag- “An Outbreak Investigation Report and Lessons Learned
ing the Varied Problems of Plasmodium vivax Malaria.” This by Multinational Coalition Forces: October 2016, Baghdad,
review reacquaints SOF Medics with the basic principles of Iraq.”
malaria as context for understanding the several confounding
issues particular to P. vivax infections and concludes with cur- The Prolonged Field Care section provides a guideline on
rent malaria guidelines and malaria mitigation strategies. “Traumatic Brain Injury Management in Prolonged Field
Care” by Van Wyck and colleagues and a “Teleconsulta-
The Back Pack Health Worker Team (BPHWT), a commu- tion in Prolonged Field Care Position Paper” by Vasios and
nity-based health organization, provides primary health care colleagues.
to ethnic people in conflict, remote, and internally displaced
areas, in Burma (aka Myanmar), controlled by ethnic armed Our popular SOFsono Ultrasound Series by Poston and
organizations fighting against the Burma government. Gyo Hampton is “To Cut or Not to Cut: That Is an Ultrasound
describes the team’s work in “Humanitarian Struggle in Question!”
Burma’s Conflict Zones.”

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