68W - Field Craft 1 Questions With Complete Solutions

A UH60 blackhawk can be loaded from which side? correct answer: both sides left = head first right = feet first battlefield medicine is different than EMS in civilian life due to correct answer: More stressors, more to think about, civilians follow ATLS What did the United States military learn in the Battle of Mogadishu (Black Hawk Down)? correct answer: Liberal use of IV fluids led to shortages Inadequate hemorrhage control due to lack of sufficient tourniquets, lack of junctional injury management training Civilian EMS correct answer: 1. Limited in # injuries, resources not overwhelemed 2. pts located in secure areas 3. supplies and advisor available 4. short prehospital phase 5. evacuation times are definitive & short Tactical EMS correct answer: 1. large # of injuries, resources can be quickly overwhelmed 2. casualties in non secure area 3. supplies limited 4. evac times are longer Combat injury statistics correct answer: 87.3% of combat deaths occur in the pre-hospital arena 75.7% could not have been saved regardless of medical care rendered 24.3% could have been saved, but only with earlier surgical intervention Wound data correct answer: Extremity - 13% Junctional - 20% Truncal - 67% - difficult areas to effectively control bleeding 24% of survivable injuries is broken down into correct answer: Torso - 9% Head and neck - 25% Extremities - 60% - not protected by body armor Penetrating trauma is prevalent in a combat environment b/c most combat trauma is from correct answer: ballistics and blasts C-spine in Combat correct answer: -Limited and may be unnecessary