Akademisk Kvarter og Trauma Care Foundation/Mineskadesenteret ved UNN er stolte over å invitere til lansering av Hans Husum (red.): War Surgery. A Field Manual (2. ed.) i vår hovudbutikk i UB-kjelleren, Universitetet i Tromsø, førstkommande tirsdag, 14. februar, kl 13.30.
Hans Husum, Swee Chai Ang og Erik Fosse står bak denne boka som spring ut frå fagmiljøet tilknytta Tromsø Mineskadesenter og Trauma Care Foundation.
Følgande personar vil under lanseringa bidra til debatten rundt krigskirurgi og vilkåra for å redde liv og lemmer:
"Førsteutgaven blir brukt av alt fra misjonærer i Nagaand til US Army på Afrikas horn og den pakistanske hæren i Kasmir. Hvis du bare har plass til ei bok i felten, så er dette boka - den inneholder alt - fra våpen og fysiologi til kirurgisk prosedyre, mikrobiologi, ernæring og anestesi. Andreutgaven er særlig oppgradert på våpen, ny innsikt i skadens fysiologi - og endel triks som vi har måtta lære oss som en konsekvens av nye våpentyper."
- Hans Husum (redaktør og medforfatter).
Fra bokomtale:
“War surgery, Field Manual takes a unique approach to the subject of trauma and war surgery. Unlike the usual literature written for well-equipped, conventional armies and Western-style hospitals - thus of limited value to doctors, and community health workers facing less than ideal conditions in Third World countries - this manual adopts the standpoint of poor and vulnerable communities and staff, caught in wars they did not ask for.
In this ground-breaking work, the authors have set a standard reference for care under difficult conditions, with the lack of medical facilities and proper staff. They promote a concept of forward life support and surgery close to the front line, which draws on the resources and knowledge of the local community, which improvises with local equipment and materials, and also includes a complete guide to post-operative, high-energy nutrition based on local foodstuffs and food-processing traditions. The authors have distilled in this well-illustrated textbook the knowledge gained after 15 years of experience with post-Vietnam generation of weapons during surgery in the Middle East, Afghanistan and South East Asia.”
" . . . . a wealth of information on the organization of war medical service and on approaches to setting up forward clinics . . . . an indispensable tool for surgeons and medical assistants who find themselves in circumstances of war . . . . no other manual in existence covers this information with such depth and clarity."
- David Werner, the author of Where There is No Doctor.
"We have used the procedures recommended in War Surgery, Field Manual in building a network of mobile forward clinics. Since 1989 our field clinics have provided limb and life-saving surgery to more than 5,500 war casualties from the combat grounds in Central and Eastern Afghanistan. With its simple terminology and clarifying illustrations, the book has proved to be very useful in training of graduate as well as non-graduate medical staff."
- Dr. Assadullah Reha MD, Medical Director, Mujahed Emergency Medical Centre, Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
". . . . This is something that is not easily obtained from literature, and this book will be an important contribution to the field . . . . It will help establish a standard of care for military and non-military health care providers . . . ."
- Prof. John A. Weigelt MD, Vice-Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, USA.
"War Surgery, Field Manual was extremely well done and represented a nice summary of the problems. Certainly, it will be of great interest to any military medical personnel."
- Prof. F. William Blaisdell MD, Chairman, Department of Surgery, University of California, USA.
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Les meir om War Surgery. A Field Manual hos Akademisk Kvarter: http://www.ak.uit.no/vare.php?ean=9789832729211 og hos UiT: http://uit.no/nyheter/artikkel?p_document_id=230808
Les meir om Tromsø mineskadesenter: http://www.unn.no/norske-sider/category21881.html
Les meir om Trauma Care Foundation: http://www.traumacare.no/