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On the battlefield, seconds count. PHTLS: Prehospital Trauma Life Support, Military Tenth Edition, a digital resource, teaches and reinforces the principles of rapidly assessing a trauma patient using an orderly approach, immediately treating life-threatening problems as they are identified, and minimizing any delays in initiating transport to an appropriate destination. Developed by the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT) in cooperation with the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ASC-COT), PHTLS, Military Tenth Edition reflects current, evidence-based knowledge and practice and promotes critical thinking as the foundation for providing quality care.

Since 1996, Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) has improved the care rendered in combat prehospital environments. TCCC is the battlefield prehospital component of the Joint Trauma System, an organization within the Department of Defense that projects combat trauma care out to the point of injury and continues that care seamlessly while bringing the casualty home for recuperation and rehabilitation. TCCC guidelines are continuously revised and updated by the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC), an all-volunteer group of military medicine and trauma care specialists. The membership of CoTCCC includes combat medics, corpsmen, and pararescue specialists, as well as physicians and physician assistants.

PHTLS: Prehospital Trauma Life Support, Military Tenth Edition is the next step in the evolution of the premier global prehospital trauma education program, a partnership between PHTLS and TCCC that goes back to the fourth edition of this manual. The Tenth Edition continues the shared mission to promote excellence in trauma care by all practitioners and in all environments. In addition to the PHTLS core content, it features fourteen chapters written by military prehospital trauma care experts for practitioners in the military environment.

This digital Tenth Edition includes the following:

• Scenario - An opening case study that presents the key concepts of the chapter in a realistic patient or casualty care situation that encourages the participant to ask, "What would I do?"
• Key Terms - All key terms that appear in the Glossary are highlighted within the chapters
• Engaging Art Program - The Military Tenth Edition features photos and illustrations that depict the realities of battlefield prehospital care
• Summary - A list of the key concepts in each chapter
• Scenario Solution - A discussion on how the patient or casualty in the opening scenario is assessed and treated in the field or on the battlefield and during transport  

Table of Contents:

Chapter 1:  PHTLS:  Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 2:  Golden Principles, Preferences, and Critical Thinking
Chapter 3:  Shock: Pathophysiology of Life and Death
Chapter 4:  The Physics of Trauma
Chapter 5:  Science Management
Chapter 6:  Patient Assessment and Management
Chapter 7:  Airway and Ventilation
Chapter 8 :  Head and Neck Trauma 
Chapter 9:  Spinal Trauma
Chapter 10:  Thoracic Trauma
Chapter 11:  Abdominal Trauma
Chapter 12:  Musculoskeletal Trauma
Chapter 13:  Burn Injuries
Chapter 14:  Pediatric Trauma
Chapter 15:  Geriatric Trauma
Chapter 16:  Injury Prevention
Chapter 17:  Disaster Management
Chapter 18: Explosions and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Chapter 19:  Environmental Trauma I:  Heat and Cold
Chapter 20:  Environmental Trauma II:  Lightning, Drowning, Diving, and Altitude
Chapter 21:  Wilderness Trauma Care
Chapter 22:  Civilian Tactical Emergency Medical Support (TEMS)
Chapter 23: Introduction to Tactical Combat Casualty Case
Chapter 24: Care Under Fire
Chapter 25: Tactical Field Care
Chapter 26: Tactical Evacuation Care
Chapter 27: Scenarios
Chapter 28: Aeromedical Evacuation
Chapter 29: Joint Trauma System
Chapter 30: Triage in Tactical Combat Casualty Care
Chapter 31: Injuries from Explosives
Chapter 32: Burns
Chapter 33: Casualty Response Planning
Chapter 34: Urban Military Operations
Chapter 35: Medical Direction
Chapter 36: Ethical Considerations