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| Historically in warfare, the majority of all combat deaths have occurred prior to a casualty ever receiving advanced trauma management.
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| ===MISSION STATEMENT===
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| The mission of the Starfleet Medical Officer, whether in the role of a Combat Medic, or an Operating Theatre Officer is to provide medical care and training in accordance with the tenets of Tactical Combat Casualty Care, Tactical Medical Emergency Protocols, and Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support; in order to provide optimal health care to a Joint Special Operations Task Force conducting missions in support of Starfleet policies and objectives.
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| ==Texts==
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| 1. Advanced Trauma Life Support for Doctors. 7th Edition, American College of
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| Surgeons, Mosby, 24. <br>
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| 2. Basic and Advanced Prehospital Trauma Life Support: Military Edition. Revised
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| 5th Edition, National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians, Mosby, 2004. <br>
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| 3. Emergency Medicine: A Comprehensive Study Guide. 6th Edition, American
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| College of Emergency Physicians, McGraw-Hill, 2004. <br>
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| 4. Emergency War Surgery. 3rd US Revision, Borden Institute, 2004. <br>
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| 5. Griffith’s Five-Minute Clinical Consult. Lippincott, 2006. <br>
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| 6. Guidelines for Field Management of Combat-Related Head Trauma. Brain
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| Trauma Foundation, 2005. <br>
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| 7. Prentice Hall Nurse’s Drug Guide. Wilson, Shannon, and Stang, 2007. <br>
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| 8. Tactical Medical Emergency Protocols for Special Operations Advanced
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| Tactical Practitioners (ATPs). US Special Operations Command, 2006. <br>
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| 9. Tarascon Adult Emergency Pocketbook. 3rd Edition, Tarascon, 2005. <br>
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| 10. Tarascon Pocket Pharmacopoeia. Tarascon, 2006.
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