RT Book, Section
A1 Cooney, Derek R.
A1 Cooney, Norma L.
A2 Cooney, Derek R.
SR Print(0)
ID 1126794039
T1 Field Surgery
T2 Cooney's EMS Medicine
YR 2016
FD 2016
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071775649
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1126794039
RD 2024/04/24
AB Field  surgical  procedures  are  for  the  most  part  relatively  uncommon  with  few  cases  reported  and  published.  Barriers  to  reporting  likely  include  a  preponderance  of  poor  or  unfavorable  outcomes  and  the  perceived  risk  of  litigation  in  these  high  acuity  scenarios.  Although  some  hospital-based  surgical  “go  teams”  exist,1,2  it  is  more  likely  that  an  EMS  physician  will  be  responding  to  these  incidents  in  most  communities.  Rather  than  task  a  system  to  make  available  an  additional  trauma  surgeon  it  is  seemingly  more  appropriate  for  EMS  physicians  (of  all  primary  training  backgrounds)  to  maintain  their  education  and  training  in  these  potentially  lifesaving  procedures.  The  following  text  is  meant  as  an  introduction  to  these  procedures  as  they  are  likely  to  be  performed  in  the  austere  and  limited  environment  of  the  prehospital  setting  and  in  no  way  meant  to  substitute  for,  or  replace  the  need  for,  EMS  physicians  to  study  and  train  on  these  techniques  in  the  controlled  environment  of  the  anatomy  lab  or  operating  theater.