This type of tourniquet is used to control bleeding when other conventional methods are not available.
What is an Improvised Tourniquet?
100
This is the primary airway adjunct used by CLS personnel.
What is a NPA?
100
This is the name given to an air-tight dressing.
What is an Occlusive Dressing?
100
After making sure your interventions are effective, you check for this on the casualty.
What is Pulse?
200
Applying a tourniquet is the only treatment given in this stage of TCCC.
What is Care Under Fire?
200
Combat Gauze can be used to stop bleeding in these areas when it is not possible to use a tourniquet.
What are the Axillary/Inguinal areas? (Armpit/Groin)
200
To open a casualty's airway, this is the method used when there is no spinal injury considerations.
What is the Head-Tilt/Chin-Lift?
200
After sealing and securing an open chest wound, you need to do this.
What is Needle Chest Decompression?
200
This is the medical condition where there is an inadequate flow of oxygenated blood to the tissues in the body causing them to die.
What is shock?
300
This is the first thing you do immediately after moving the casualty off of the "X" and going into Tactical Field Care.
What is re-check all interventions (tourniquets)?
300
After you have applied *This* in order to stop bleeding, you should still have a pulse.
What is an Emergency Trauma Bandage? (Pressure Dressing)
300
Using the look-listen-feel method, you look for *This*, feel for *this*, and feel for *this*.
What is Look for rise and fall of the chest, Listen for breath sounds, and feel for breath on your cheek?
300
This medical condition is described as the bluish tint on the lips, tongue, and fingertips
What is Cyanosis?
300
A casualty with an absent pulse combined with trauma should recieve this.
What is I.V. Fluids?
400
In regards to Tactical Evacuation Care, you are primary concerned with making sure you have *this* and making sure that *this* medical condition is prevented.
What is documentation/hypothermia?
400
This is the term used to describe the medical condition that occurs when a casualty has lost a significant amount of blood.
What is Hypovolemic Shock?
400
When inserting an airway adjunct into the nostril, you want to insert it into *this* and make sure that the bevel is *this*
What is into the right nostril and facing the septum?
400
This is the medical condition in which air pressure is causing the lung(s) to collapse and not fully expand.
What is Tension Pneumothorax?
400
In order to treat shock, you generally need to do these two things.
What is stop the bleeding/adminster fluids?
500
Before you have even made it to your casualty, you should already have this.
What is a General Impression?
500
This should be used while applying a tourniquet in order to help stop bleeding.
What is Manual Pressure?
500
The main reason to insert an airway adjunct into a casualty.
What is if the casualty is unconscious?
500
These two symptoms combined is an automatic indicator of a possible Tension Pneumothorax.
What is progressive respiratory distress/wound to the chest area? (thoracic cavity)
500
In addition to treating conditions caused by bleeding, these are some other types of injuries that would be treated in this stage of Tatical Field Care.
What is burns, shrapnel/impaled objects, fractures, wound/stump dressing?