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Be sure to see our In This Issue on page 10 for a detailed de- Please be sure to read our JSOM 20th Anniversary Special
scription of ALL the great content in the edition. Interview Podcasts on page 141 about our 3rd quarter 20th
anni versary interviews with:
Podcasts
• LTC, MC, USA Jamie Riesberg, MD
We hope you are enjoying our editorial review and our inter- • CAPT Ryan C. Maves, MD, FCCP, FCCM, FIDSA
views with community leaders’ podcasts. These podcasts are • Jordan Benjamin, Founder and Executive Director,
being brought to you by Alex Merkle, DSc, PA-C, NREMT-P, Asclepius Snakebite Foundation
and Joshua Randles, DSc, PA-C. Their goals for developing
the podcasts are to serve as a conduit from SOF medic authors Please be sure to follow the Podcasts on our JSOM website at
to SOF medic readers, to highlight some excellent research https://jsom.us/Podcast. We are always looking for feedback
being published by JSOM, and to educate others on how to to better improve what we put out; you can contact Alex and
critically read the literature. They are also a driving force in Josh at Podcast@JSOMonline.org.
the mentorship program discussed here earlier.
Be sure to follow our bimonthly eNewsletter for all the updates
Alex and Josh will focus the Fall Edition podcast to stay with that happen between journal editions. We have several new
the journal’s theme of spotlighting prolonged field care. handbooks now available ONLY on our JSOM Online Store,
to include the first-time published Standard Medical Opera-
This quarter we’ll be reviewing the following four articles: tions Guide (SMOG); the 2020 Updated 8th Ed Pararescue
Medical Operations (PJ) Handbook (now available in spiral
1. “Life and Limb In-Flight Surgical Intervention: Fifteen
Years of Experience by Joint Medical Augmentation Unit binding); the newly updated official 2020 Ranger Medic Hand-
Surgical Resuscitation Teams book (RMH) (now with section tabs); and the new Advanced
Ranger First Responder Handbook (ARFR).
2. “Ketamine Administration by Special Operations Medical
Personnel During Training Mishaps” (author interview If you are new to the JSOM, be sure to see our 20-year history
with Stephen Meyer) of how we came to be in our Spring 20 edition.
3. “Management of Critically Injured Burn Patients During
an Open Ocean Parachute Rescue Mission”
4. “Far Forward Gaps in Hemorrhagic Shock and Prolonged
Field Care: An Update of ALM Fluid Therapy for Field
Use” (featuring our guest medic reviewer).

Our guest medic reviewer this quar-
ter is former Ranger Medic Rico Ray
Pesce. Rico is finishing his college de-
gree and applying to medical schools.
He’s also working with Alex Merkle
to publish a COVID article since he
worked at the Ryan Larkin field hos-
pital outside Columbia as a volun-
teer SOF medic. He will be reviewing
“Far Forward Gaps in Hemorrhagic
Shock and Prolonged Field Care: An Update of ALM Fluid
Therapy for Field Use” by authors Letson and Dobson.

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