Annual Review of Nursing Research, Volume 32, 2014: Military and Veteran Innovations of Care / Edition 1

by Christine Kasper PhD, RN, FAAN

Overview

Presenting a state-of-the-art annual review of the most significant military innovations in health care research, this new volume focuses primarily on health care innovations that have been developed in response to injuries sustained during the conflict in Iraq and the nearby region. It addresses physical injuries such as burns, pain management, and transplants as well as Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome and moral injury.

Topics include clinical knowledge development, moral injury, battlefield resuscitation, battlefield transport, Ethical decision-making, PTSD and sequelae of war, military families, quality of life and reintegration, transplantation, burns, heavy metal toxicity, battlefield toxicology, infectious disease, monitoring of pandemics, epigenetics of agent orange, CAM, malignant hyperthermia and caffeine abuse, and pain management.

Key Features:

•Distills research about the most important health care innovations resulting from the Iraqi conflict
• Presents the research findings of foremost experts in military health care
• Explores the effectiveness of emerging interventions
• Diseminnates important but under-reported research

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826128072
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	09/23/2014
Edition description:	32nd ed.
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Patricia Ann Watts Kelley, PhD, RN, FNP-C, GNP-C, FAANP, is Health Sciences Officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Research and Development, Washington DC, and on faculty at Excelsior College Department of Nursing. She is also Associate Professor in the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Graduate School of Nursing, Bethesda, MD.

Christine E. Kasper, PhD, RN, FAAN, is Professor and Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Office of Nursing Services, Washington, DC; Professor at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD; and Member of the Governor’s Committee on Spinal Cord Injury Research in Maryland.

Table of Contents

About the Volume Editor vii

Contributors ix

Preface xiii

Acknowledgments xvii

Dedication xix

1 Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A View From the Operating Theater Charles A. Vacchiano Kenneth A. Wofford J. Frank Titch 1

2 Evolution of Burn Management in the U.S. Military: Impact on Nursing Patricia Schmidt Elizabeth A. Mann-Salinas 25

3 Innovations in the En Route Care of Combat Casualties Jennifer J. Hatzfeld Susan Dukes Elizabeth Bridges 41

4 Embedded Metal Fragments John F. Kalinich Elizabeth A. Vane Jose A. Centeno Joanna M. Gaitens Katherine S. Squibb Melissa A. McDiarmid Christine E. Kasper 63

5 Mantram Repetition: An Evidence-Based Complementary Practice for Military Personnel and Veterans in the 21st Century Jill E. Bormann Sally Weinrich Carolyn B. Allard Danielle Beck Brian D. Johnson Lindsay Cosco Holt 79

6 Impact of Deployment on Military Families Janice Agazio Petra Goodman Diane L. Padden 109

7 Investigations on the Relationship Between the Autonomic Nervous System and the Triggering of Malignant Hyperthermia: A State-of-the-Science Review Susan M. Perry 135

8 Family Caregivers of Veterans: A Critical Review of the Empirical Literature and Recommendations for Future Research Constance R. Uphold Meggan Jordan Magaly Freytes 155

9 Prehospital Tourniquets: Review, Recommendations, and Future Research Paid C. Lewis 203

Index 233