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from the

PUBLISHER

elcome to the JSOM’s 20th ■ Wall, Clothing Effects on Limb
Wyear in publication. We are Tourniquet Application
giving you some great reading mate- ■ O’Dochartaigh, Temporizing
rial to occupy you as you’re spend- Life-Threatening Abdominal-
ing more time at home. Our Spring Michelle D. Landers, Lt Col (Ret) Pelvic Hemorrhage Using Propri-
edition focused our Then and Now etary Devices, Manual Pressure,
section on the use of Whole Blood during the past 20 or a Single Knee: An Integrative Review of Proximal Ex-
years. This edition is focused on Tourniquets and Hem- ternal Aortic Compression and Even “Knee BOA” (Au-
orrhage Control and closes out with insights from our thor interview with Dr Peter Brindley, of the “Brindley
editors—senior editor, John F. Kragh Jr, MD; James K. Sessions” on Scott Weingart’s EMCrit)
Aden 3rd, PhD; Michael A. Dubick, PhD; associate edi-
tor Piper Wall, DVM, PhD; and Charisse Buising, PhD. Additionally, we just released our 20th anniversary in-
This topic continues with two new on-topic submis- terview with JSOM’s senior editor and internationally
sions: Step Duration Effects on Blood Loss in Simulated recognized tourniquet SME, Dr John F. Kragh Jr. “We
Designs of Tourniquet Use by Dr Kragh and colleagues had the privilege of sitting with him to learn about how
on page 76 and Clothing Effects on Limb Tourniquet tourniquet use has changed in the past 20 years of med-
Application by Dr Wall and colleagues on page 83. ical practice. And we got to enjoy listening to him talk
about medical statistical modeling, which was some-
Be sure to see our In This Issue on page 8 for a detailed what above our comprehension level but still fun to lis-
description of ALL the great content in the edition. ten to.” As well, we have this quarter's interviews with
CMSgt Michael Rubio and Dr Rich Lesperance. Prior to
Podcasts listening to these interviews on our podcast sites, be sure
to read about these three and their contributions to SOF
We hope you are enjoying our editorial review and our medicine on page 149 of this edition.
interviews with community leaders podcasts. These
podcasts are being brought to you by Alex Merkle, Please be sure to follow the Podcasts on our JSOM web-
DSc, PA-C, NREMT-P, and Joshua Randles, DSc, PA-C. site at https://www.jsomonline.org/Podcasts.php. We are
Their goals for developing the podcasts are to serve as a always looking for feedback to better improve what we
conduit from SOF medic authors to SOF medic readers, put out; you can contact Alex and Josh at Podcast@JSOM
to highlight some excellent research being published by online.org. Be sure to follow our bimonthly eNewslet-
JSOM, and to educate others on how to critically read ter for all the updates that happen between journal edi-
the literature. tions. We have several new handbooks now available
ONLY on our JSOM Online Store, to include the first
Alex and Josh will focus the Summer Edition podcast time published Standard Medical Operations Guide
to stay with the journal’s theme of spotlighting tourni- (SMOG); the 2020 Updated 8th Ed Pararescue Medi-
quets—how to apply them correctly and how to design cal Operations (PJ) Handbook (now available in spiral
realistic training. binding); the newly updated official 2020 Ranger Medic
Handbook (RMH) (now with section tabs); and the new
“It’s amazing to realize that we’re now almost Advanced Ranger First Responder Handbook (ARFR).
25 years from Dr Butler’s landmark paper rec-
ommending tourniquet use on the battlefield, If you are new to the JSOM, be sure to see our 20-year
and there is still so much to study and learn history of how we came to be in our Spring 20 edition.
about tourniquets. Just as there is so much
for Josh and me to learn about how to run a
podcast!

This month we’ll be reviewing:
■ Kragh, Step Duration Effects on Blood Loss in
Simulated Designs of Tourniquet Use Procedure

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