Edited by eminent experts in the field, this text brings together medical specialists from all four branches of the armed services. This book discusses the history of aeromedical evacuation, triage and staging of the injured patient, evacuation from site of injury to medical facility, air-frame capabilities, medical capabilities in-flight, response to in-flight emergencies, and mass emergency evacuation. The rapid-fire response of aeromedical evacuation services is required to treat and transport patients injured in regional conflicts, in mass emergencies and natural disasters, in the face of terrorist attack, and in the event of biological or chemical warfare.

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The Need.- Aeromedical Evacuation: A Historical Perspective.- Indications and Considerations for Emergent Evacuation of the Peacetime Casualty.- Combat and Operational Casualties.- The Means.- Military Casualty Evacuation: MEDEVAC.- Aeromedical Triage Support to Mass-Casualty Events.- Patient Staging for Aeromedical Evacuation.- Aircraft Considerations for Aeromedical Evacuation.- Critical-Care Air Transport: Patient Flight Physiology and Organizational Considerations.- Nursing Care in Flight.- Aeromedical Evacuation of Patients with Contagious Infections.- In-Flight Emergencies: Capabilities and Limitations.- The Patients.- General Surgical Casualties: Abdominal Wounds, Urogenital Trauma, and Soft-Tissue Injuries.- Air Evacuation of the Neurosurgical Patient.- Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Patients.- Ophthalmic Patients.- Peripheral Vascular Casualties.- Aeromedical Evacuation of Cardiothoracic Casualties.- Patients Requiring Mechanical Ventilation.- Orthopedic Patients.- Burn Patients.- Aeromedical Evacuation of Obstetric and Gynecological Patients.- Medical Casualties.- Pediatric Casualties.- Aeromedical Evacuation of Psychiatric Casualties.