Airway Management
Bleeding Control
Casulty Evacuation
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
What are the ways in which a CLS/Medic can open a casulty's airway?
Head tilt/chin lift or jaw thrust manuever
100
The leading preventable cause of death on the battlefield is bleeding from an extremity. (true or false)
True
100
How is MedEvac different from CasEvac?
MedEvac is any vehicle/aircraft specifically designated for medical treatment/transportation. (i.e. M997 ambulance, stryker,etc)
100
Define: Hypovolemic Shock
Refers to loss of blood/volume in the body
100
To determine a casulty's level of consciousness, you would use what scale?
AVPU
200
If a neck or spinal injury is not suspected, use the jaw thrust manuever. (True or False)
False
200
The acronym CAT stands for what?
Combat Action Tourniquet
200
Each litter bearer should have the knee farther from the litter on the ground when preparing to lift a casulty lying on a litter. (true or false)
False; the knee nearest the litter on the ground.
200
Define: TCCC
Tactical Combat Casulty Care
200
When using the needle decompression method, where should the cather be placed?
In the second intercostal space (ICS), above the third rib.
300
What is the most common cause of airway obstruction?
The tongue
300
The band on an improvised tourniquet should be at least how many inches wide?
2 inches
300
When giving a 9-line medevac request, the first what lines must be given within how many seconds?
The first 5 lines in 25 seconds
300
Define: Urgent (precedent category)
Emergency case that should be evacuated as soon as possible and within a maximum of 2 hours in order to save live, limb, or eyesight
300
What are the three most preventable battlefield deaths?
1- hemorrhage 2- tension pneumothorax 3- airway management
400
Rescue breathing involves how many breaths or how many seconds?
2 breaths over 2 seconds (1 breath per second)
400
A tourniquet can be used on an arm, elbow, leg, or thigh. (true or false)
False; arm, forearm, leg, or thigh
400
You have one ambulatory casulty (1 alpha) and one litter casulty (1 lima). When transmitting this information in line 5 of the medevac request, "1 alpha" and "1 lima" are separated by what proword?
Break
400
Define: Flail Chest
Two or more adjacent ribs are fractured in at least two places or separation of sternum from ribs
400
Positioning a casulty lying on their back for airway insertion involves the use of what method?
log-rolling method
500
A casulty has suffered a pentrating chest wound to the left side of his chest and no other wounds. This could result in the collapse of which lung(s)?
Left lung
500
Name three sites where digital pressure can be applied to stop bleeding
1-temporal 2-carotid 3-brachial 4-radial 5-femoral 6-posterior/anterior tibialis
500
Define each line of the 9-line medevac request
1-grid coordinates 2-radio frequency/call sign &suffix 3-No. of casulties by precedence (US,S,R,C) 4-special equipment 5-No. of casulties by type (A or L) 6-Security of pick-up site 7-Method(s) of marking pick-up site 8-Casulty nationality/status 9-NBC contamination
500
define: AVPU
Alert, responsive to VERBAL stimuli, responsive to PAINFUL stimuli, Unresponsive
500
Leaking what fluid may indicate a skull fracture?
cerebrospinalfluid (CSF)
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