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Sorry for the post without much background information. My area of medical expertise is relatively limited as a 68W with some additional training (DMI's OEMS course along with miscellaneous training that the 82nd put me through). As a line medic, I was always very interested in finding out what the best I could do in a given situation would be. I asked the same question as the original poster to Dr. John Hagmann about a year ago on this exact topic, and I took a lot of notes. All of the scholarly mumbo jumbo above is from his mouth, and he was very clear when he explained that the most important thing to remember is that shock treatment and evac really are the best things that a medic can do. He's a great teacher, and he was very sure to communicate to me that we aren't being sent into combat with below standard techniques and procedures.
The main point of the above information is that although there are a lot of techniques and drugs available for the treatment of increased ICP, there isn't a whole lot available to the combat medic.
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