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PUBLISHER
Michelle DuGuay Landers, MBA, BSN, RN
Lt Col (Ret)

Greetings JSOM Subscribers, SOMSA
No matter where medicine is being practiced, it is always It was great to see everyone at SOMSA in May. As in past
rooted in the fundamental challenges of dealing with anatomy years, the assembly was filled with the latest in vital medical
and physiology. The cover of the Summer Edition of the JSOM information updates and innovations. Welcome to our new
is a visual reminder that whether dealing with warfighters on SOMA president, John Dominguez. Be sure to read a great
the front lines or civilians in an emergency department, once human-interest story about John in this edition’s There I Was.
Michelle D. Landers, Lt Col (Ret)
we remove the outer trappings, the inner workings remain the
same. Medicine is medicine, and the goal is to successfully As we move further into 2022, we continue to take measures
treat the casualty or patient through trauma, support the heal- to ensure that the JSOM maintains the highest quality stan-
ing process, and achieve the preservation of life. dards at the most affordable price. As mentioned in the Spring
Edition, one of the measures we have adopted is offering our
SOMA members the option to select the Digital Only flipbook
Critical Care Edition of the JSOM
version of the journal. Those members choosing this option
Thanks to Dr Andy Fisher for spearheading this project that will be able to access our entire repository of previously pub-
has finally come to fruition: the JSOM is focusing this edition lished journals and articles. Additionally, digital subscribers
solely on SOF/critical care medicine. Article topics include: will be able to download the PDF copy of the journal to their
mobile devices. Of course, if the hard copy of the journal is
• Management of Severe Crush Injuries in Austere Environ- preferred, that option is still available. Any SOMA member
ments: A Special Operations Perspective wishing to convert to digital may do so at any time in their
• Analgesia and Sedation in the Prehospital Setting: A Criti- SOMA profile.
cal Care Viewpoint
• Prehospital Traumatic Brain Injury Management: Clinical
Pearls and Pathophysiology Ahead of Print
• Shock and Vasopressors
• Prehospital Anemia Care: A Review of Symptoms, Evalua- As a result of the JSOM’s growth we are seeing articles tak-
tion, and Management ing longer to get published as the print edition is constrained
• Principles and Considerations in the Early Identification to a set size. We have brainstormed over how best to fix this
and Prehospital Treatment of Thrombocytopenia problem and get our articles available sooner. We decided to
• Prehospital Electrolyte Care: A Review of Symptoms, Eval- digitally publish ahead of print (AoP). The articles will be as-
uation, and Management signed a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and submitted as such
• Pathophysiology and Treatment of Burns to PubMed as soon as they are approved for publication by
• Airway Management with Noninvasive Positive Pressure our medical editor. Once the process is complete, we will no-
Ventilation tify the authors via email that their manuscript is available in
• Mechanical Ventilation: A Review for Special Operations PubMed. Full PDF versions of the article will be available on
Medical Personnel the subscriber. You can find them on the subscriber portion of
• Management of Acute Lung Injuries and Acute Respiratory our website.
Distress Syndrome in the Tactical and Prolonged Field Care
Setting Summer Podcast
• Coagulopathy Associated With Trauma: A Rapid Review
for Prehospital Providers Articles being reviewed by our Podcast Team are:
• The Future of Prehospital Critical Care Analgesia and Sedation in the Prehospital Setting: A Crit-
• Management of Pediatric Sepsis: Considerations for the ical Care Viewpoint by Taylor T DesRosiers, MD; Justin L.
Austere Prehospital Setting Anderson BHS, SO-ATP, NRP; Brit Adams, NRP; Ryan A.
Carver, MD (p. 48).
There have been significant improvements in trauma medi-
cine, especially in the prehospital setting. The formation and Airway Management with Noninvasive Positive Pressure
development of the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Ventilation by Wayne Papalski; John Siedler; David Callaway,
Care provided a standardized, evidence-based guideline and MD (p. 93).
training system for nonmedical personnel and clinicians of all Mechanical Ventilation: A Review for Special Operations
levels. We found these topics relevant to our readers because Medical Personnel by Jonathan Friedman, RN, BSN, FP-C;
effective prehospital medicine offers the greatest opportunity Seth Assar, MD (p. 97).
for military clinicians to improve on rates of morbidity and
mortality.

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