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How do you treat a casualty for shock?

Control the bleeding first. Lay the casualty on their back and elevate the legs if there is no injury that prevents it, loosen tight clothing, keep them warm and off the cold ground to prevent hypothermia, reassure them, and do not give food or drink. Evacuate.

How do you treat a suspected heatstroke casualty?

Treat it as a life-threatening emergency. Move the casualty to shade, strip off gear and outer clothing, and start cooling immediately with water, ice sheets, or immersion while fanning. Do not force fluids into an unconscious casualty. Request MEDEVAC and keep cooling while you wait.

What are the three phases of tactical combat casualty care?

Care under fire, tactical field care, and tactical evacuation care.

How are ribbons arranged on the service uniform?

Ribbons are worn in order of precedence, reading from the wearer's right to left and from the top row down. Rows are built so that no row contains more ribbons than the row beneath it. Placement measurements for the coat and shirt are in DA PAM 670-1.

How do you apply a tourniquet during care under fire?

Apply it high and tight on the injured limb, over the uniform, well above the wound. Tighten until the bleeding stops, secure the windlass, and note the time of application. Refine the placement later during tactical field care.

How does tourniquet placement change once you reach tactical field care?

Reassess the wound and, if the situation allows, move the tourniquet to roughly two to three inches above the wound and never directly over a joint. Tighten until the bleeding stops and the distal pulse is gone. Write the time of application on the tourniquet and the casualty card. Do not loosen or remove a tourniquet that has been applied.

Name the common cold weather injuries.

Hypothermia, frostbite, immersion foot or trench foot, chilblain, snow blindness, and dehydration. Cold weather does not stop dehydration, and Soldiers routinely underdrink in the cold.

Walk me through the screening process under the Army Body Composition Program.

The Soldier is weighed and measured for height and compared against the screening table weight for their height, age, and sex. A Soldier at or under the screening weight passes and no further assessment is required. A Soldier over the screening weight receives a body fat assessment. If the body fat result exceeds the standard for their age and sex, the Soldier is enrolled in the program and flagged.

What are the five steps of the OPSEC process?

Identify critical information, analyze the threat, analyze vulnerabilities, assess risk, and apply OPSEC measures or countermeasures. The process is continuous, not a one-time check.

What are the four general categories of chemical agents?

Nerve agents, blister agents, blood agents, and choking agents. Riot control agents and incapacitating agents are also encountered but are not casualty agents in the same sense.

What are the nine lines of a UXO report?

Line 1, date-time group of discovery. Line 2, reporting activity and location of the item. Line 3, contact method, frequency, call sign, and point of contact. Line 4, type of ordnance, dropped, projected, placed, or thrown. Line 5, CBRN contamination. Line 6, resources threatened. Line 7, impact on the mission. Line 8, protective measures already taken. Line 9, recommended priority.

What are the signs and symptoms of shock?

Pale, cool, clammy skin; a rapid and weak pulse; rapid breathing; restlessness or confusion; nausea and thirst; and, as it worsens, loss of consciousness.

What are the three heat injuries, and which one is a medical emergency?

Heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and heatstroke. Heatstroke is the medical emergency. It is a failure of the body to control its own temperature and it can kill quickly.

What are the three principal Army uniforms a Soldier will encounter, and what is each used for?

The Army Combat Uniform in the Operational Camouflage Pattern, or OCP, is the utility and field uniform. The Army Green Service Uniform, or AGSU, is the everyday service uniform for office duty, travel, and most official business. The Army Service Uniform, or ASU, the blue uniform, is worn for dress and formal occasions.

What are your priorities during care under fire?

Return fire and gain fire superiority, keep yourself from becoming a casualty, and get the casualty to cover if it can be done safely. The only medical treatment expected is stopping life-threatening extremity bleeding with a tourniquet. Airway management and detailed assessment wait until tactical field care.

What does the acronym MARCH stand for, and why is it used in that order?

Massive hemorrhage, airway, respiration, circulation, and hypothermia or head injury. The order puts uncontrolled bleeding first because hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable death on the battlefield.

What happens to a Soldier enrolled in the Army Body Composition Program?

The Soldier is flagged, which suspends favorable personnel actions including promotion, schooling, and reenlistment. The Soldier is referred for nutrition counseling and a medical evaluation, weighed and assessed monthly to measure progress, and counseled in writing. Failure to make satisfactory progress, or repeated enrollment, can lead to separation.

What is a METL and what is a T and EO?

A METL is a mission-essential task list, the tasks a unit must be able to perform to accomplish what it was designed to do. A training and evaluation outline, or T and EO, is the standard for a specific task: the conditions, the standard, and the performance measures a leader uses to evaluate it. The T and EO is the starting point for any honest proficiency assessment.

What is a pace count and how do you establish one?

A pace count is the number of paces you take to cover a known distance, and it is how you keep track of distance while navigating dismounted. Establish it by walking a measured 100-meter course several times, counting one pace each time the same foot strikes the ground, then averaging the counts. Re-check it for hills, heavy brush, sand, snow, darkness, and a heavy load, because all of them change it.

What is the difference between distance and interval?

Distance is the space between elements front to rear. The distance between ranks is 40 inches. Interval is the lateral space between Soldiers side by side, measured from shoulder to shoulder.

What is the difference between MEDEVAC and CASEVAC?

MEDEVAC uses a dedicated, marked medical evacuation platform with medical personnel and en route care. CASEVAC moves casualties on a vehicle or aircraft of opportunity with no dedicated medical crew or en route treatment. Use CASEVAC when MEDEVAC is not available and the delay would cost the casualty.

What signs point to nerve agent exposure?

The mnemonic SLUDGEM covers them: salivation, lacrimation or tearing, urination, defecation, gastrointestinal distress, emesis or vomiting, and miosis, which is pinpointing of the pupils. Add muscle twitching, difficulty breathing, and convulsions as exposure worsens.