MASTER COMBAT MEDICINE FULL-SIZE FORMAT - **biggest edition available anywhere** giant 8.5" x 11" size means large, clear print and pictures. Complete & unabridged "Batteries last hours, books last decades. Get the print edition!" The 75th Ranger Regiment Trauma Management Team (Tactical) are the most revered combat medics in the U.S. Army. The Ranger Medic Handbook contains the distilled wisdom of hard-won experience over decades in combat around the world, in depth and detail, including dozens of easy-to-follow diagnostic and procedural flow charts that will let you correctly and effectively respond to a huge variety of medical situations, both life-threatening emergencies and every-day discomforts. RANGER MEDIC CHARTER
"SOCM ATP"
(Special Operations Combat Medic Advanced Tactical Practitioner) Shoot and engage targets to defend casualties and self. Operate relatively independently with highly-dispersed highly-mobile combat formations in an austere environment. Communicate via secure and non-secure means. Move tactically through unsecured areas. Absolute master of the basics through pre-hospital trauma life support and tactical combat casualty care. Timely, consistent, and competent provider of advanced trauma management within scope of practice. Practitioner who assists licensed medical providers with medical emergencies and routine care encountered while in garrison, training, and during deployments. FOREWORD Historically in warfare, the majority of all combat deaths have occurred prior to a casualty ever receiving advanced trauma management. The execution of the Ranger mission profile in the Global War on Terrorism and our legacy tasks undoubtedly will increase the number of lethal wounds. Ranger leaders can significantly reduce the number of Rangers who die of wounds sustained in combat by simply targeting optimal medical capability in close proximity to the point of wounding. Survivability of the traumatized Ranger who sustains a wound in combat is in the hands of the first responding Ranger who puts a pressure dressing or tourniquet and controls the bleeding of his fallen comrade. Directing casualty response management and evacuation is a Ranger leader task; ensuring t
MASTER COMBAT MEDICINE FULL-SIZE FORMAT - **biggest edition available anywhere** giant 8.5" x 11" size means large, clear print and pictures. Complete & unabridged "Batteries last hours, books last decades. Get the print edition!" The 75th Ranger Regiment Trauma Managem