Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 Mechanisms and Demographics in Trauma
- 2 Trauma Airway Management
- 3 Shock Management
- 4 Establishing Vascular Access in the Trauma Patient
- 5 Monitoring the Trauma Patient
- 6 Fluid and Blood Therapy in Trauma
- 7 Massive Transfusion Protocols in Trauma Care
- 8 Blood Loss: Does It Change My Intravenous Anesthetic?
- 9 Pharmacology of Neuromuscular Blocking Agents and Their Reversal in Trauma Patients
- 10 Anesthesia Considerations for Abdominal Trauma
- 11 Head Trauma – Anesthesia Considerations and Management
- 12 Intensive Care Unit Management of Pediatric Brain Injury
- 13 Surgical Considerations for Spinal Cord Trauma
- 14 Anesthesia for Spinal Cord Trauma
- 15 Musculoskeletal Trauma
- 16 Anesthetic Considerations for Orthopedic Trauma
- 17 Cardiac and Great Vessel Trauma
- 18 Anesthesia Considerations for Cardiothoracic Trauma
- 19 Intraoperative One-Lung Ventilation for Trauma Anesthesia
- 20 Burn Injuries (Critical Care in Severe Burn Injury)
- 21 Anesthesia for Burns
- 22 Field Anesthesia and Military Injury
- 23 Eye Trauma and Anesthesia
- 24 Pediatric Trauma and Anesthesia
- 25 Trauma in the Elderly
- 26 Trauma in Pregnancy
- 27 Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma
- 28 Damage Control in Severe Trauma
- 29 Hypothermia in Trauma
- 30 ITACCS Management of Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Injured Patients
- 31 Trauma and Regional Anesthesia
- 32 Ultrasound Procedures in Trauma
- 33 Use of Echocardiography and Ultrasound in Trauma
- 34 Pharmacologic Management of Acute Pain in Trauma
- 35 Posttrauma Chronic Pain
- 36 Trauma Systems, Triage, and Transfer
- 37 Teams, Team Training, and the Role of Simulation in Trauma Training and Management
- Index
- Plate section
- References
22 - Field Anesthesia and Military Injury
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- 1 Mechanisms and Demographics in Trauma
- 2 Trauma Airway Management
- 3 Shock Management
- 4 Establishing Vascular Access in the Trauma Patient
- 5 Monitoring the Trauma Patient
- 6 Fluid and Blood Therapy in Trauma
- 7 Massive Transfusion Protocols in Trauma Care
- 8 Blood Loss: Does It Change My Intravenous Anesthetic?
- 9 Pharmacology of Neuromuscular Blocking Agents and Their Reversal in Trauma Patients
- 10 Anesthesia Considerations for Abdominal Trauma
- 11 Head Trauma – Anesthesia Considerations and Management
- 12 Intensive Care Unit Management of Pediatric Brain Injury
- 13 Surgical Considerations for Spinal Cord Trauma
- 14 Anesthesia for Spinal Cord Trauma
- 15 Musculoskeletal Trauma
- 16 Anesthetic Considerations for Orthopedic Trauma
- 17 Cardiac and Great Vessel Trauma
- 18 Anesthesia Considerations for Cardiothoracic Trauma
- 19 Intraoperative One-Lung Ventilation for Trauma Anesthesia
- 20 Burn Injuries (Critical Care in Severe Burn Injury)
- 21 Anesthesia for Burns
- 22 Field Anesthesia and Military Injury
- 23 Eye Trauma and Anesthesia
- 24 Pediatric Trauma and Anesthesia
- 25 Trauma in the Elderly
- 26 Trauma in Pregnancy
- 27 Oral and Maxillofacial Trauma
- 28 Damage Control in Severe Trauma
- 29 Hypothermia in Trauma
- 30 ITACCS Management of Mechanical Ventilation in Critically Injured Patients
- 31 Trauma and Regional Anesthesia
- 32 Ultrasound Procedures in Trauma
- 33 Use of Echocardiography and Ultrasound in Trauma
- 34 Pharmacologic Management of Acute Pain in Trauma
- 35 Posttrauma Chronic Pain
- 36 Trauma Systems, Triage, and Transfer
- 37 Teams, Team Training, and the Role of Simulation in Trauma Training and Management
- Index
- Plate section
- References
Summary
Objectives
Review the military environment and the constraints this imposes on resuscitation and anesthesia.
Review the issues in resuscitation of the ballistic casualty.
Discuss aspects of field anesthesia.
SUMMARY
Injuries from modern military munitions can be complex and devastating. Their management demands particular anesthetic and surgical skill sets including an understanding of time-critical injury. In addition, casualty management in the deployed military setting is subject to a number of threats and constraints that influence how care can be delivered. This chapter will consider the types of casualties that may present to the military provider; how the care is influenced by situational constraints, and suggest some anesthetic techniques that are appropriate for use in the field.
INTRODUCTION
Casualties presenting to the military anesthesiologist or anesthetist will broadly fall into a number of groups:
The ill, multiply injured casualty with time-critical injuries
The injured casualty needing surgery for wound care who is stable and can wait
Casualties needing follow-up procedures for wound and injury care
Routine problems such as appendectomies
Civilian patients (adult and child) falling into the above groups
All of these would have differing requirements in the setting of a large, well-resourced civilian hospital. The constraints of the military environment can mean they are managed very differently. This chapter is structured to try and separate the three chapter objectives, but in reality they are interwoven and some repetition is necessary between the different sections. The chapter starts with an overview of these constraints.
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