Infection Prevention in Combat-related injuries
These two items should be worn with all patients suspected or known to have multi-drug resistant organism colonization or infection with C. difficile-infection (CDI).
What are gloves and gowns?
This chemical irritant smells like rotten eggs.
What is Hydrogen Sulfide?
This person assumes risk of reduced capability when a medical evacuation organization is not capable of providing the required intratheater en route care capability.
Who is the Theater Commander?
These 3 systems are standardized and validated scoring systems for the assessment of pain, anxiety, and delirium.
What are DoD/VA Pain Rating Scale, Richmond Agitation Sedation Scale (RASS), and Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)?
It takes this long to thaw frozen red blood cells in a plasma thawer.
What is 35 minutes?
This daily activity of ICU patients has shown a reduction of infections with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) and methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
What is bathing?
This chemical irritant has a sweet, pleasant smell of mown hay.
What is Phosgene (Carbonyl Chloride)?
This approved Joint Trauma System patient care record (PCR) is primarily used for Critical Care Air Transport Team movements.
What us AF IMT 3899 Patient Movement Record with supplements A through K?
The goal for patients with delirium is to achieve a delirium free state as measured by this system.
What is the Confusion Assessment Method (CAM)?
It takes this long to thaw frozen red blood cells in a 42 degree Celsius water bath.
What is 42 minutes?
Blast injuries, especially related to this attack, present a unique bloodborne pathogen risk if an impaled body part is introduced into the trauma patient.
What are Suicide Bomber Attacks?
This chemical irritant forms a strong base which can cause mucosal irritation, severe upper airway irritation, and alkali skin burns when reacting with water.
What is Ammonia?
This kind of transport is required when "the patient has a critical illness or injury that acutely impairs one or more vital organ systems such that there is a high probability of imminent or life-threatening deterioration in the patient's condition during transport".
What is Critical Care?
This medicine, in parenteral doses of 0.15-0.3 mg/kg, has been shown to reduce pain scores, total narcotic use, and need for rescue medication when used with morphine for acute pain control.
What is Ketamine?
Deglycerolized red blood cells are derived from this amount of whole blood collected in citrate/phosphate/dextrose or citrate/phosphate/adenine collection bags.
What is 400-500mL?
What are hand washing, gloves, gowns, masks, goggles, and face shields?
These 2 substance categories are NOT a highly water-soluble irritant.
What are oxides of Nitrogen and Phosgene?
Optimal but not necessarily definitive patient stabilization before transport is critical and encompasses these 4 connected elements.
What are injuries, resuscitation, treatments are at steady-state, and deterioration.
This is a safe antiemetic in the adult population and is increasingly the therapy of choice for acute undifferentiated and trauma-related nausea.
What is Ondansetron?
Red blood cells are stored for up to 6 days at 1-6 degrees Celsius before being frozen in a cryoprectant (40% w/v glycerol), and stored in the frozen state at minus 65 degrees celsius or colder for up to this length of time.
What is 10 years?
The WHO's five moments of hand hygiene include these five actions.
What are (1) Use of soap and water or alcohol-based sanitizer before patient contact. (2) Before aseptic tasks. (3) After body fluid exposure risk. (4) After patient contact. (5) After contact with patient surroundings, even if gloves were worn.
These make up the triad of severe cyanide toxicity.
What are hypotension, altered mental status, and lactic acidosis?
This report was recently incorporated into the 9-line medical evacuation request.
What is MIST?
Mechanism of Injury, Type of Injury, Signs (vital signs), Treatment given
Battlefield Accupuncture (BFA) is a non-pharmological pain therapy for mild to moderate pain or an adjunct to opioid medications. BFA is accomplished by applying needles to this body part.
What are the ears?
These are the clinical indications of use of each unit of deglycerolized RBCs (DRBCs).
What are the primary indications for use of frozen and deglycerolized RBCs is as a supplement to liquid RBCs during surge periods of increased transfusion requirements in order to decrease casualty hemorrhagic morbidity and mortality?