Baghdad ER: Fifteen Minutes by Todd Baker (Very good, 2011, Pbk, 370 pages, Gray Fox Publishing, Signed by Author)

Used in very good condition: cover has light wear; stamp on inside front page; rest of book like new. ISBN 9780578069920

The first hour after a major trauma is known as the Golden Hour. During those sixty minutes, every step in a patient's resuscitation can mean the difference between life and death. In Baghdad, American military personnel would bleed to death within minutes. We did not have the Golden Hour. We had fifteen minutes. This is our story.

Baghdad Fifteen Minutes chronicles my journey to war as an Emergency Physician serving in Iraq with the US Army. Beginning as I prepared to leave my wife and infant daughter behind, the saga covers each of the major events, emotions, and characters I encountered while caring for America's finest warriors during my tour. The emergency department, or EMT, of the 86th Combat Support Hospital became a family during this endeavor. We lived, ate, and cried together, and triumphed as a unit. Our goal was to save every American soldier, sailor, airman, or marine who was carried through our doors, regardless of any horrific injury they had endured, and we eventually left with a 96% survival rate. We were their safety net; their shelter when things went wrong.

Todd Baker is a board-certified emergency physician who served as chief of the Emergency Medical Treatment (EMT) Section of the 86th Combat Support Hospital. The 86th staffed Ibn Sina Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq with its EMT commonly referred to as "Baghdad ER" during the famed "troop surge" from November 2007 to January 2009. Dr. Baker worked in Baghdad and Mosul during his fifteen-month tour, and served time as the Emergency Medicine Consulant to the Army Surgeon General for the Iraq theater while deployed. Dr. Baker was awarded the Bronze Star and Combat Action Badge for his service in Iraq.