3 Phases of Casualty management - Answers Care under fire, tactical field care, evacuation care
Line 3 - Answers Number of paients by precedence
10 liters - Answers The amount of blood and IV fluid an adult casualty can hemorrhage into the
abdomen
Acid-base balance - Answers Directly related to CO2 produced and CO2 eliminated
Acidosis - Answers Body suffers from shock lactic acid builds up in the tissue. Normal clotting requires a
normal pH. Treatment: Assess and manage H-A-B-C
Advantages of Aeromedical - Answers Range and speed of aircraft make it possible to evacuate
casualties over long distances in a short period of time.
Air Embolism - Answers Causes chest pain, treat by placing casualty on left side with feet elevated to
allow the pulmonary artery to absorb small air bubbles.
Airway - Answers Open airway using head-tilt/ chin-lift maneuver
Alveoli - Answers Where O2 and CO2 exchange occurs.
Anaphylactic shock - Answers Body's hypertensive reaction to an antigen
Arteries & Arterioles - Answers Typically have higher pressure and bright red blood. Bleeding tends to be
pulsating.
Blunt or penetrating trauma - Answers Best deferred to the Tactical field care.
Body mechanics - Answers Use your large leg muscles when lifting
Cardiogenic shock (pump failure) - Answers Occurs when the heart's pumping mechanism no longer
functions correctly which results in inadequate perfusion.
Care under fire - Answers First priority is not treating casualties it is to take cover, return fire, and avoid
additional casualties.
Care under fire treatment - Answers Immediate management of the airway is not usually feasible due to
limited time. Hasty tourniquet over blood soaked extremity is only treatment.
Circulation - Answers Treat any other significant non-pulsatile hemorrhage with a packing (as necessary)
and pressure bandage. Apply a deliberate tourniquet 2-3 inches above the wound, directly on skin not
over a joint.
Circulatory Overload - Answers S/S- Elevated blood pressure, distended neck veins (JVD), rapid
breathing, shortness of breath, tachycardia.
, Contraindications for NPA - Answers Maxillofacial trauma, CSF draining from nose, mouth, or ears.
DD Form 1380 Field Medical Card (FMC) - Answers ...
Emergency Cricothyroidotomy - Answers Preferred advanced airway in combat. Creation of a surgical
opening in the crycothyroid membrane.
Enemy Fire - Answers Single most significant obstacle to the medics's ability to provide care.
Evacuation - Answers Begins when medical personnel receive injured or I'll soldiers. Determination to
request medical evacuation made by the senior military person present.
Extrication Devices - Answers Stokes basket, jungle penetrator (JP), Sked litter.
Extremity hemorrhage - Answers Leading cause of preventable death on the battlefield.
Falling blood pressure - Answers Sign of impending death
Four litter casualty - Answers Upper right, lower right, upper left, lower left. Most seriously injured are
last so they will be the first off.
Gold Standard of Airway - Answers Endotracheal intubation
Ground ambulance responsibility - Answers Assistant driver duties, provide emergency care en route,
loading and unloading of casualties.
Hasty tourniquets - Answers All tourniquets placed during care under fire
Hemodilution - Answers Occurs when too much intravenous fluid has been given
Hemorrhage - Answers Perform a bold sweep of neck, axillary, inguinal, and extremity areas. If needed,
apply a deliberate tourniquet to any new extremity wounds.
Hemorrhagic Shock - Answers Hemorrhage internally or externally is the most common cause of shock in
trauma casualties.
Hemostatic agents - Answers Should be strongly considered with wounds of the neck, axillary area, and
inguinal area, especially if there is a presence of life threatening hemorrhage.
Hypothermic casualty - Answers When patient's core body temp falls below 95 degrees.
Indications for NPA - Answers Unconscious casualty with no respiratory distress, unconscious without
airway obstruction, altered casualty with gag reflex.
Infection - Answers S/S- redness, swelling, and soreness around IV site, rise in temperature and pulse,
purulent drainage from IV site.
Infiltration - Answers Accumulation of fluid in the tissue surrounding an IV Needle site.