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the first thing you treat on a casualty
What is massive bleeding?
Airway device that goes in the nose.
What is NPA?
Intervention you use on an open chest wound.
What is a chest seal?
Medical equipment you use to keep pressure on combat gauze.
What is Pressure bandage or ETB?
Another thing we check for in H in march other than hypothermia.
Intervention that stops major bleeding from a limb
What is a tourniquet?
Maneuver to open the airway
What is head tilt chin lift?
Injury that you worry about when a casualty struggles to breath after being shot.
What is tension pneumothorax?
Amount of time is takes for a casualty to bleed to death from major blood loss.
What is 3 minutes?
What is shivering?
High and tight tourniquet
What is a hasty tourniquet?
Position to put a casualty in that helps keep the airway open when they’re unconscious but breathing.
What is comfort?
Something you keep assessing after applying chest seal.
What is breathing
First thing you do in C in March.
What is checking for radial pulses?
2 types of hypothermia heating methods.
What is active and passive?
Action you do when a tourniquet is ineffective.
What is applying a second tourniquet?
2 main signs that the airway is blocked.
What is snoring and gurgling?
What is no breathing improvement? What is unequal rise and fall of the chest?
2 signs of shock.
What is clammy skin and disorientation?
Reason we want to keep casualties warm.
What is to prevent faster blood loss?
The 2 main signs that a tourniquet is effective.
What is controlled bleeding and no distal pulse?
Action you should not do if you find an object lodged in the airway but can’t take it out?
What is blind finger sweep?
What is 2nd or 5th intercostal space?
Areas you can check for a pulse.
What is wrist, neck, and groin?
2 signs of a head injury.
What is double vision, memory loss, ear ringing or vomiting?