Tactical Emergency Care: Military and Operational Out-of-Hospital Medicine

Product Description
This book explores the new and rapidly developing area of tactical EMS, a special blend of prehospital care and military-style tactical operations encompassing field and wilderness medicine under austere and often hostile conditions. This is the first commercial book to focus on military medicine at the EMT/military medic level. Focusing on the unique prehospital problems facing tactical EMT’s, the book covers wounds from conventional weapons as well as nuclear biologic, and chemical weapons. Medical evacuation, environmental medicine and triage as well as ambulatory care and topics unique to EMT’s providing law enforcement medical support are also addressed. Medical information coders
Tactical Emergency Care: Military and Operational Out-of-Hospital Medicine