Combat Radiology

Deployment Preparation and Battlefield Challenges for the Radiologist.
- Echelons of Care: Radiology Capabilities and Staffing at Various Locations.
- Significant Medical Advances on the Battlefield.
- Imaging Advances in Deployed Combat Hospitals.
- Overview and Unique Terms of Deployed Military Combat Hospitals.
- Damage Control Radiology.
- Imaging Procedures and Protocols.
- Wound Ballistics: New Role of Imaging.
- Blast Injuries.
- Specific anatomic / pathologic concepts and cases.
- Traumatic Brain Injury: Severity Spectrum.
- Ocular Injuries.
- Spine.
- Chest.
- Abdomen.
- Severe Extremity Trauma, Amputations and Salvageability: Radiologists Role.
- Military Acronym Soup

Col. Les Folio, a retired air force radiologist and flight surgeon with over twenty years of service, presents a comprehensive introduction to diagnostic imaging technology for the deployed military physician.

From the reviews:"This monograph describes the approaches to imaging of patients injured in combat used in recent military conflicts. ... Military physicians or surgeons, intensivists treating military causalities in a follow-up role, and radiologists desiring an introduction to the practicalities of military radiology are an appropriate audience for this work. The author is a retired Air Force radiologist. ... This is a good introduction to the unique technical considerations facing radiologists in the current combat environment." (David J. Dries, Doody's Review Service, October, 2010)"Combat Radiology in essence comprises 3 books in a single volume. ... With the aid of diagrams and illustrations, many in color, the author shows how ultrasound and computed tomography with multiplanar reconstruction and 3-dimensional volume-rendered images are used ... . Combat Radiology is a valuable resource for any physician involved in military or emergency medicine ... . will appeal to any reader with an interest in how medicine is practiced on today's battlefields." (Leonard Berlin, Journal of the American Medical Association, December, 2010)"Combat Radiology: Diagnostic Imaging of Blast and Ballistic Injuries is a good introduction to the imaging of patients injured in recent military conflicts. ... Dr Folio is extremely well versed and knowledgeable in this field. ... Excellent-quality images ... are used to convey the extent of injuries sustained and to explain differing patterns of injuries. ... it is more intended to be a general application for all health care providers involved in the care of patients who have blast- and ballistic-type injuries." (Giang T. Nguyen, Radiology, Vol. 260 (3), September, 2011)

From the reviews:

"This monograph describes the approaches to imaging of patients injured in combat used in recent military conflicts. ... Military physicians or surgeons, intensivists treating military causalities in a follow-up role, and radiologists desiring an introduction to the practicalities of military radiology are an appropriate audience for this work. The author is a retired Air Force radiologist. ... This is a good introduction to the unique technical considerations facing radiologists in the current combat environment." (David J. Dries, Doody's Review Service, October, 2010)

"Combat Radiology in essence comprises 3 books in a single volume. ... With the aid of diagrams and illustrations, many in color, the author shows how ultrasound and computed tomography with multiplanar reconstruction and 3-dimensional volume-rendered images are used ... . Combat Radiology is a valuable resource for any physician involved in military or emergency medicine ... . will appeal to anyreader with an interest in how medicine is practiced on today's battlefields." (Leonard Berlin, Journal of the American Medical Association, December, 2010)

"Combat Radiology: Diagnostic Imaging of Blast and Ballistic Injuries is a good introduction to the imaging of patients injured in recent military conflicts. ... Dr Folio is extremely well versed and knowledgeable in this field. ... Excellent-quality images ... are used to convey the extent of injuries sustained and to explain differing patterns of injuries. ... it is more intended to be a general application for all health care providers involved in the care of patients who have blast- and ballistic-type injuries." (Giang T. Nguyen, Radiology, Vol. 260 (3), September, 2011)