ACTUAL EXAM 100 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED
ANSWERS
Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) Card - ANSWER: DD Form 1380
Under what conditions would you consider spinal precautions possibly necessary? -
ANSWER: Motor vehicle crashes, Falls from greater than 15ft, IED blast involving an
MRAP vehicle
The leading cause of preventable battlefield death is? - ANSWER: Hemorrhage
Where on the body are the majority of combat wounds suffered? - ANSWER:
Extremities
What is the single biggest obstacle you will face when providing battlefield care? -
ANSWER: Enemy fire
Who decides if casualties will be evacuated? - ANSWER: The tactical
commander/leader.
What treatments will you provide during Care Under Fire (CUF) phase? - ANSWER:
The only treatment you will provide is a hasty tourniquet.
The distance a casualty can be transported by manual carry depends upon what? -
ANSWER: 1. Strength and endurance of the bearers 2. Weight of the casualty 3.
Nature of the injuries 4. Obstacles encountered durning transport
What is line four of a nine line medevac? - ANSWER: Special equipment.
What are the brevity codes for line four special equipment? - ANSWER: A= none B=
Hoist C= Extraction equipment D= Ventilator
What is line three of the nine line Medevac? - ANSWER: Number of patients by
precedence.
What are the brevity codes for line three number of patients by precedence? -
ANSWER: A= Urgent B= Urgent Surgical C= Priority D= Routine E = Convenience
Loading sequence for 4 litter casualties - ANSWER: Upper right, lower right, upper
left, lower left
The _________ are loaded last so that they can be the first to be off loaded -
ANSWER: The most seriously injured
, The three most common devices used by the hoist to extract casualties are? -
ANSWER: The stokes basket, the jungle penetrator, the SKED litter
How many casualties can a HAGA MRAP evacuate? - ANSWER: 3 litter and 6
ambulatory
How many casualties can a STRYKER evacuate? - ANSWER: 4 little and 6 ambulatory.
How many casualties can an M997 evacuate? - ANSWER: 4 litter or 8 ambulatory of
2 litter and 4 ambulatory
All tourniquets placed during Care Under Fire must be - ANSWER: Hasty Tourniquets
What are the 4 "P's" of wound packing? - ANSWER: Peel, push, pile, pressure
Pile the gauze above the love of the skin _____ inches - ANSWER: 1-2 inches
Capillaries - ANSWER: Where O2 and CO2 exchange occurs. Bleeding oozes.
veins and venules - ANSWER: Carry blood back to the heart, have lower pressure
compared to arteries and have darker, burgundy colored blood, bleeding tends to
flow.
arteries and arterioles - ANSWER: Carry blood away from the heart to the tissues,
typically have higher pressure and bright red blood, bleeding tends to be pulsating,
but may flow from deeper artery.
Consider a casualty hypothermic when their core body temperature falls below -
ANSWER: 95 degrees
Plasma - ANSWER: Watery, fluid with proteins, platelets, and other molecules and
dissolved minerals. Constitutes over half the blood volume.
Blood clotting requires a normal pH level of - ANSWER: 7.35 to 7.45
Hemodilution - ANSWER: When too much IV crystalliod fluid has been given. The
clotting proteins, platelets and red blood cells have been "washed out" of the
vascular space.
Casualties with non-compressible hemorrhage need _______ - ANSWER:
Appropriate shock management and urgent surgical evacuation and surgery.
Urgent-surg is Bravo within line 3 of a 9line
Suction should not be applied for more than - ANSWER: 15 seconds
What never is being stimulated if auctioning is too aggressive? - ANSWER: The Vagal
nerve