Overview
- Concisely written, practical knowledge written by veterans of combat surgery
- A large number of full color images illustrate difficult techniques and situations
- This handbook is designed to provide the most necessary and practical knowledge needed by Surgeons working on the front lines
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Both editors are active duty officers and surgeons in the U.S. Army. Dr. Martin is a fellowship trained trauma surgeon who is currently the Trauma Medical Director at Madigan Army Medical Center. He has served as the Chief of Surgery with the 47th Combat Support Hospital (CSH) in Tikrit, Iraq in 2005 to 2006, and most recently as the Chief of Trauma and General Surgery with the 28th CSH in Baghdad, Iraq in 2007 to 2008. He has published multiple peer-reviewed journal articles and surgical chapters. He presented his latest work analyzing trauma-related deaths in the current war and strategies to reduce them at the 2008 annual meeting of the American College of Surgeons. Dr. Beekley is the former Trauma Medical Director at Madigan Army Medical Center. He has multiple combat deployments to both Iraq and Afghanistan, and has served in a variety of leadership roles with both Forward Surgical Teams (FST) and Combat Support Hospitals (CSH).
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“The book is designed to provide surgeons deployed to a combat region with a well-organized, easy-to-read reference ‘to get or keep them out of trouble.’ Any surgeons treating trauma patients are an appropriate audience for this work … . Chapters are clearly written. … The table of contents lists chapter titles and authorship while the index provides good access to content. This is a superb introduction to battlefield conditions for surgeons or general medical officers preparing for deployment … .” (David J. Dries, Doody’s Review Service, February, 2011)Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Front Line Surgery
Book Subtitle: A Practical Approach
Editors: Matthew J. Martin, Alec C. Beekley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6079-5
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-6079-5Published: 13 December 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 350
Number of Illustrations: 170 b/w illustrations, 225 illustrations in colour
Topics: Surgery, Abdominal Surgery, General Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Traumatic Surgery, Emergency Medicine