First Aid

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

This is an NPA. 

What is a nasopharyngeal airway, which is an artificial tube that can be inserted into the nasal passageway to help keep the airway open.

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

You can do this to prevent initial hemorrhage prior to applying a tourniquet in Care Under Fire.

What is apply Proximal Pressure?

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

How to indicate a CAT.

What is place a T and the time of the application on the casualty?

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

Casualty Evacuation

100

The process of moving any person who is wounded, injured, or ill to and/or between medical treatment facilities while providing enroute medical care.

What is a MedEvac?

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

200

The first action in Care Under Fire.

What is return enemy fire before providing aid?

300

How you get a MEDEVAC to come to you

What is send a 9-line medevac request?

400

TRUE OR FALSE

If a broken back or neck is suspected, you may move the casualty, but only if it is to save their life.

What is True?

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

This is what IFAK stands for.

What is Improved First Aid Kit?

200

TCCC stands for this

What is Tactical Combat Casualty Care?

300

Moving a casualty aboard a nonmedical vehicle.

What is a CASEVAC?

400

These are three types of TCCC.

What is 

Care Under Fire, 

Tactical Field Care, and 

Tactical Evacuation Care?

500

AVPU stands for this.

What is:   Alert,

responsive to VERBAL stimuli,

responsive to PAINFUL stimuli, 

Unresponsive?

Providing Care

100

To determine a casualty's level of consciousness, you would use this?

AVPU

200

The first individuals in the medical chain that make medically substantiated decisions based on medical MOS-specific training.

What are Combat Medics?

300

Urgent and immediate lifesaving and other measures which can be performed for casualties by nonmedical personnel when medical personnel are not immediately available...or by the casualty themselves.

What is Buddy Aid/Self-Aid?

400

An item below that is NOT an item included in the IFAK:

1. Tourniquet, combat application
2. Airway, nasopharyngeal
3. Glove, patient exam
4. Motrin, 800mg

What is 

• D. Motrin, 800mg?

500

Nonmedical Soldiers selected by their unit commander for additional training beyond basic first aid procedures. They provide enhanced first aid for injuries.

What are Combat lifesavers?