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the musculoskeletal injury self-reporting behaviors among 2021 SOMSA ABSTRACTS
active-duty Air Force Special Warfare personnel to explore po- 2021 Scientific Assembly Research Award Winners and
tential limitations of injury surveillance approaches.
Presentations
Penetrating thoracic injuries account for an essential subset ONGOING SERIES
of battlefield and civilian injuries that result in death. Current
recommendations are to use commercially available nonocclu- INJURY PREVENTION
Update on Minimalist Running Shoes compares minimalist
sive chest seals. The authors of Efficacy of Commercial Chest running shoes with conventional running shoes.
Seal Adherence and Tension Pneumothorax Prevention: A
Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies review current ev-
idence for which chest seal(s) is likely to be the most effective
in treating open pneumothoraces and determine that further
scientific, quantitative research is needed to clarify which com- The conventional and
minimalist shoes used in
mercially available chest seals are most effective. the investigations.
Caffeine Gum Does Not Improve Marksmanship, Bound
Duration, Susceptibility to Enemy Fire, or Cognitive Perfor-
mance During Tactical Combat Movement Simulation: Mili-
tary personnel supplement caffeine as a countermeasure during LEST WE FORGET
unavoidable sustained wakefulness. However, its utility in Blood Transfusion as a Therapeutic Maneuver: The focus of
combat-relevant tasks is unknown. This study examined the this series will be to remind all those privileged to care for the
effects of caffeinated gum on performance in a tactical combat injured that one must constantly look to the past to practice
movement simulation. in the present, to be a student of our military medical history.
SPECIAL MINDSET
Telementorship in Underway Naval Operations: Leveraging
Operational Virtual Health for Tactical Combat Casualty Care The negative effects of deployment on military mental health is
evaluated the feasibility of synchronous bidirectional virtual a topic of major interest. Predeployment and postdeployment
health to mentor life-saving procedures performed by de- assessments are common, but to date there has been little to
ployed novice providers. no intradeployment assessment of military members. In this
first article of a new series, Timeline of Psychological and
Physiological Effects Occurring During Military Deployment
on a Medical Team attempts to determine the physiological
and psychiatric effects on Servicemembers over the course of
deployment, to provide a baseline data set and to allow for
better prediction, prevention, and intervention on these neg-
ative effects.
THERE I WAS
Lessons Learned From a Traumatic Brain Injury Mass Casualty
Incident covers the resulting mass casualty (MASCAL) inci-
dent. In this case, we defined this incident as a MASCAL due
to a lack of medical personnel available to properly and timely
evaluate the patients. There was no loss of life during the at-
tack but there were > 80 traumatic brain injuries. This article
focuses on lessons learned from diagnosing and treating Sol-
A US Navy Hospital Corpsman performs tube thoracostomy via diers during a TBI MASCAL event.
telementorship using augmented reality goggles in a simulated adult
trauma patient while underway in the Pacific Ocean. A surgeon THE WORLD OF SPECIAL OPERATIONS MEDICINE
tele mentor from Naval Medical Center San Diego stands in the
background. First Aid UCV (Green Cross) for Prehospital Medicine in So-
cial Commotion Situations: Out of the need for a first aid team
LETTER TO THE EDITOR that could operate in the violent demonstrations, First Aid
UCV (Central University of Venezuela) was created. A large
Use of the Intranasal Route for Administration of Ketamine number of professionals with medical, rescue, and tactical
by Special Operations Medical Personnel During Training medicine experience integrated this new team, modifying their
Mishaps comments on the study by Fisher et al. advocating
the use of ketamine by Special Operations medical personnel training and practice to adapt to a scenario in which unarmed
during training mishaps. medical students and medical doctors performed extractions,
provided first aid, and managed the transport of demonstra-
tion casualties, doing so even when team members were some-
EDITORIAL
times targeted by the government police and military forces.
Serving Those Who Served: The Yellow Ribbon Program and
US Medical Education: The authors call on US medical schools TCCC UPDATES
to review their Yellow Ribbon policies to ensure there is an
equitable distribution of funding to current student veterans Tactical Combat Casualty Care Scenario: Management of a
and to encourage Servicemembers to pursue future careers in Gunshot Wound to the Chest in a Combat Swimmer
medicine after the military.

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