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83 of 87 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
This book is Trash, August 8, 2000
These two clowns have authored what must be the WORST reference to ever be produced on military/tactical medicine. They should be ashamed. Not only is some of the information completely wrong (the entire ballistics chapter), most of it is completely irrelevant. As someone who has spent more than 1/2 of his 10 year military career in Spec Ops medicine I find this book insultingly stupid and a waste of good $. Here's a news flash for the authors: not all bullets tumble on impact! Moreover, if you have the time to figure out the "ideal" carry, you're not in a gunfight and should contemplate an alternate transportation method. You have obviously never moved a wounded teammate over broken terrain for any length of time or distance. If you're going to write about it, at least get some first hand knowledge of what is required to do the job correctly. DO NOT SPEND YOUR MONEY ON THIS ABORTION. Try "Ditch Medicine," "Where there is no doctor" or Paul Auerbach's "Wilderness Medicine" handbook for accurate and useful info.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
I'd Give It Zero Stars If I Could, July 17, 2007
As a operational medical provider and later physician, having served in combat, civilian TEMS, and international disaster and remote medicine for 25 years, I can say without hesitation that this 'text' is a useless rehash of standard CONUS urban EMS and outdated and abandoned military medicine concepts. It reflects none of the critical lessons learned since Gulf 1, nor our changing understanding of how people die, and live, in operational and resource limited settings.
Many of the facts are simply wrong, wrong when the text was written, and even more so today.
The suggested solutions show no evidence that the authors have any real appreciation for the second by second difficulties, change in priorities, and realities of limited resources that actually characterize 'military and operational out-of-hospital medicine.'
If you think the topic is wholly encompassed by helicopters and ambulances at your beck and call, care under white lights, and someone else to do your carrying and grunt work, this book is for you.
If you are looking for solutions to managing an officer with a heart attack while pinned down behind a barricade for 6 hours with the resources you have on your tac vest, managing a pelvic GSW with a field transfusion under NVG's, or coordinating the evac of a trooper down a mountain... in other words, real operational medicine rather than sanitized urban CONUS EMS medicine in BDU's... look elsewhere.
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14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
uneven quality, August 16, 2003
tho re-issued in 1999 (with corrections), this book is not very well edited. For example, the index is often off by a couple of pages, figures are miss-captioned, & I'd love to be there when the unsuspecting reader applies eucalyptus oil instead of eugenol to your toothache. No doubt a fine text in a classroom situation with a good instructor, but on its own merits, leaves much to be desired. A bit out-of-scope for entry-level EMS personnel wishing to 'expand their knowledge', but the chapter on ambulatory care, for example, is hoplessly 'in-scope' compared to books like 'ditch medicine', 'special forces medical handbook', 'barefoot doctor's manual' or 'where there is no doctor'. And $... ???? Textbook price reminds me of college.
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