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FMF 106 First Aid and Sanitation Fundamentals

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What is triage?
A French word " TO SORT"
How many Triage Categories are there?
4
What is class 1 in a tactical situation?
Patients whose injuries required minor professional treatment and can be put back into the fight right away.
What is class 2 in a tactical situation?
Patients whose injuries require immediate life-sustaining measures or are of a moderate nature. Minimal amount of supplies and personnel.
What is class 3 in a tactical situation?
Patient for whom definitive treatment can be delayed without jeopardy to life limb or eyesight.
What is class 4 in a tactical situation?
Patient whose wounds or injuries would require extensive treatment beyond the immediate medical capabilities. Treatment of these are a detriment to others.
What is Priority 1 in a non tactical situation?
Patients with correctable life threating injuries
What is Priority 2 in a non tactical situation?
Patients with serious but not life threating injuries.
What is Priority 3 in a non tactical situation?
Patients with minor injuries
What is Priority 4 in a non tactical situation?
Patients who are dead or fatally wounded
What is the ABCDE method
Airway, Breathing, Circulation, Disability, Expose
How many pressure points are there in the body
22 (11 each side)
What should you never do for a head wound?
Apply direct pressure, never give medications.
How many degrees of burns are there?
3
What are characteristics of a 1st Degree burns?
The epidermal layer is reddened and tingling. sensitive to the touch, blanches with pressure.
What are characteristics of a 2nd Degree burns?
The epidermal layer is blistered, mottled appearance and a red base.
What are characteristics of a 3rd Degree burns?
A full thickness injury penetrating into the muscle and fatty connective tissue or down to the bone. Tissue and nerves are destroyed.
What are the 3 levels of heat stress?
Heat Cramps, Heat exhaustion, and heat stroke.
What are signs and how do you fix heat cramps?
Excessive sweating, cramps normally in the abdomen, legs and arms. Move patient to cool area and let them drink cool water and massage the area.
What are signs and how do you fix heat exhaustion?
Cool moist clammy skin, ashen gray color, pupils dilated, weak pulse, rapid shallow breathing. Move Patient to cool area let them drink water and apply cold packs to axilla, groin, head.
What are signs and how do you fix heat stroke?
Flushed, dry, hot skin Pupils constricted, Pulse fast and strong. Move patient to cool area remove clothes rapid cool them. if conscious let them sip water. check temp every 10 min.
What are signs and how do you fix hypothermia?
Glassy stare, respirations slow and shallow, Pulse weak or absent, Peripheral circulation decreases. Move patient to dry area for rewarming. Remove wet cold clothes.
What is immersion foot and how do you treat it?
Tingling, numbness, of affected area swelling of the legs, feet, hands, bluish in color painful blisters. Remove wet clothes, keep PT warm, Don't rupture blisters or apply ointment. Wrap in sterile loose gauze.
What are Frostbite characteristics?
exposer to 32F degree or lower. Starts with reddened skin, numbness in affected area, moves to white in color, to yellow in color, or mottled blue-white, and is cold, hard and insensitive to touch and pressure.
What are the 2 classifications of frostbite?
Superficial and Deep
What is superficial frostbite?
Surface of the skin will be hard but underlying tissue will be soft. Take PT indoors rewarm hand in armpits or legs or on abdomen, to rewarm feet use a buddies armpits legs or abdomen. Never rub a frostbit area.
What is deep Frostbite?
Ice crystals will form in all layers of the skin. Skin will be hard and not move. Rapidly thaw affected area, protect area from refreezing, Check pulse and breathing. Never thaw area if chance of refreezing.
What are 3 main ways to purify water?
Iodine Tablets, Calcium Hypochlorite, Boiling
How do you use Iodine Tablets?
One tablet for clean water, two tablets for cloudy water, double the amount for a 2qt canteen. wait 5 min, shake and let some of the water to spill over the threads, wait 25 more min.
How do you use Calcium Hypochlorite?
Leave 1" gap in canteen, empty half the water into canteen cup, fill canteen cap with solution and put it in the canteen, place water back in canteen and shake, let some water run over threads, wait 30 min
What are disadvantages to boiling water?
Need a fuel source, long time to heat and cool, need protection from recontamination, needs to be held at a rolling boil for 15 sec
What are the dimensions and when do you use a cat hole?
1' wide x 1' deep used only on the move
What are the dimensions and how to use a straddle trench?
4' long 2.5' deep1' wide, used for 1-3 days, After each use cover with 1 shovel full of dirt, fill in with dirt and pack it down when moving to next location.
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