CLS - Review

Airway Management

100

What are the ways in which a CLS/Medic can open a casulty's airway?

Head tilt/chin lift or jaw thrust manuever

200

If a neck or spinal injury is not suspected, use the jaw thrust manuever. (True or False)

False

300

What is the most common cause of airway obstruction?

The tongue

400

Rescue breathing involves how many breaths or how many seconds?

2 breaths over 2 seconds (1 breath per second)

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

Bleeding Control

100

The leading preventable cause of death on the battlefield is bleeding from an extremity. (true or false)

True

200

The acronym CAT stands for what?

Combat Action Tourniquet

300

The band on an improvised tourniquet should be at least how many inches wide?

2 inches

400

A tourniquet can be used on an arm, elbow, leg, or thigh. (true or false)

False; arm, forearm, leg, or thigh

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

Casulty Evacuation

100

How is MedEvac different from CasEvac?

MedEvac is any vehicle/aircraft specifically designated for medical treatment/transportation. (i.e. M997 ambulance, stryker,etc)

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.

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

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

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

Vocabulary

100

Define: Hypovolemic Shock

Refers to loss of blood/volume in the body

200

Define: TCCC

Tactical Combat Casulty Care

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

400

Define: Flail Chest

Two or more adjacent ribs are fractured in at least two places or separation of sternum from ribs

500

define: AVPU

Alert, responsive to VERBAL stimuli, responsive to PAINFUL stimuli, Unresponsive

Miscellaneous

100

To determine a casulty's level of consciousness, you would use what scale?

AVPU

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 are the three most preventable battlefield deaths?

1- hemorrhage 2- tension pneumothorax 3- airway management

400

Positioning a casulty lying on their back for airway insertion involves the use of what method?

log-rolling method

500

Leaking what fluid may indicate a skull fracture?

cerebrospinalfluid (CSF)