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Military Medicine
Military medicine covers the medical needs of military service personnel in the battlefield. This also involves establishing and operating combat support hospitals. Persons in this field are exposed to a wide range of weapon-inflicted injuries.
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How many fingers should one be able to slip under the emergency bandage after it has been applied?
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Why should nasopharyngeal airway not be used if there are evidence of clear fluid?
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The edges of the ceiling material for an open chest wound should extend how far past the edge of the world?
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What should you do if after measuring the nasopharyngeal airway tubing you decide it is too long?
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Re-measure the tubing and mark the most distal point with tape. (SABC) Cut it to the correct length, creating an angle.
What is first thing you should do for a chlorine gas victim?
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The first thing you should do for a chlorine gas victim is to remove him or her from where the chlorine gas is. Giving the patient first aid for inhaled chlorine does no good if the guy is still lying there breathing chlorine.
When to use oral airway?
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One of the biggest reasons to establish an oral-pharyngeal airway is if there is risk of losing a patent airway. For example, if the throat might swell from injury/trauma or allergic reaction. Another example: To protect heart and brain when the airway might close off completely, such as in severe respiratory distress like a severe asthma attack.
What is the position of comfort for a casualty suffering from an open chest wound?
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On their injured side
Why should the nasopharyngeal airway not be used if there's evidence of clear fluid coming from the nose or ears?
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this may indicate a brain injury
THE EDGES OF THE SEALING MATERIAL FOR AN OPEN CHEST WOUND SHOULD BE EXTEND HOW FAR PAST THE EDGES OF THE WOUND?
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What should you lubricate the nasopharngeal airway with prior to inserting it?
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Ideally, a sterile, bacteriostatic lubricant (like SurgiLube). If that is not available, water or the casualty's spit will work. Don't use blood as that will clot and cause damage when the NPA is removed.
How do you bandage an open chest wound?
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If you are not sure if a chest wound has penetrated the chest wall completely, treat the wound as though it were an open chest wound.
What heat emergency do you sprinkle water on casualty?
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You treat both heat exhaustion and heat stroke by sprinkling A LOT of water on him. You don't necessarily have to do it for a heat cramps victim, but it won't cause any harm.
Also remember: it is as important to get water IN the victim as it is to get it ON him.
Which vesicant is suspected with painful highly corrosive burns similar to acid with wheals on the skin?
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Phosgene oxime, or CX.
