Publisher's Synopsis
This book will impart lessons learned in the treatment thousands of head and neck injuries among service members and civilians in OEF/OIF. Topics covered are principles and demographics of head and neck surgery, military-unique issues and mass casualties, ballistics of injury, effects of weapons and body armor, pathophysiology, emergency management including maintaining airway and hemorrhage control, and techniques of acute and delayed surgery for blunt and penetrating injury, including preoperative planning, imaging and exploration, and procedures to repair soft tissue, vascular, craniofacial skeletal, laryngotracheal, pharyngoesophageal, mandibular, otologic, and nasal trauma.
Military physicians, soldiers and their families that may have received medical treatment for these types of traumas may be interested in this volume. Medical students also may be interested in this volume for research.
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Miltiary & Emergency Medicine resources collection can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/health-benefits/military-emergency-medicine
Physician References and Medical Handbooks collection is available here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/health-benefits/physician-references-medical-handbooks
Other products produced by the Borden Institute can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/1140
