Battlefield medicine can be boiled down to providing intensive care in intensive places. Lt. Col. Dr. Alexander Niven, director of respiratory care services and associate program director of internal medicine at Madigan Army Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash., talks with host Dr. John Armstrong about novel resuscitation techniques and infection control strategies, two fertile areas of combat care research. Additionally, Dr. Niven takes a closer look at the management of blast lung.
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