Emergency War Surgery

This 2004 Emergency War Surgery, 3rd United States Revision is written for the combat physician operating away from sophisticated medical support. This edition contains new material that updates the management of war wounds and is filled with over 150 specially drawn illustrations. Equally important is the use of an outline, bulleted format that is more concise than previous editions. The intent is that if given a choice of bringing a SINGLE book on a rapid or prolonged deployment, today's military surgeon would choose this edition over any other trauma book.

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First off, this is a medical reference manual, and as some others have said, it's full of medical terms. It's intended for doctors/surgeons working on traumatic, combat related injuries. This is NOT a first aid manual or a "how-to" book for most folks. Chances are, if you don't have a hospital handy, most of the injuries and attempting the treatments in this book will kill the patient, if they're not dead already.

So why buy it? Because without the attempt at treatment, injuries covered by this manual will almost definitely kill the patient. If you've got nothing to lose, you need to be able to do the best you can with what you have. 

Author support: Borden Institute Walter Reed Army Medical Center

Unless you have a ready supply of cadavers to practice on (and if you do, that's scary!), or work in an ER that gets lots of combat-style wounds, you really can't make use of this book on a regular basis. But if SHTF as some say, hospitals will probably not be available. So you're choices may be letting a loved one die or making the attempt to save them. If you don't have the knowledge to hand, you're choices come down to one only. For me, I'll take the chance I can save them. That's what this manual has - knowledge. Skills to use it are a different matter entirely.

I guess the best I can say is that for what it is, it's excellent. You have to decide if it's right for you or not.

Related: 

• FIRST AID FOR SOLDIERS FM 21-11, Special Operations Forces Medical Handbook
• Survival Personal Wilderness Medical Kit

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