Field Craft 3 68W
Chigger bites make itch up to
2-3 weeks
How many warriors report stress reactions that interfere w their ability to trust?
25 percent
Malaria signs and symptoms appear in
7-30 days
How many people given warning of their attempts
80%
Vector
A carrier
PTSD requires what
A group of symptoms to be present for an extended period of time
Venom
A toxin
Many soldiers experience what was a child
Adverse events
Encephalitis
Aedes and Culex mosquitoes Acute inflammatory disease w central nervous system WNV
Yellow fever
Aedes mosquito Supportive treatment
Dengue fever
Aedes mosquito transmits Supportive treatmeant
Heat/cold risk
Age Health Fatigue Past medical conditions Medications (nitro)
Athropods
Animals
Trigger
Anniversary of a suicide of a close friend or family member Death of loved one Retirement
Dialing down
Anxiety decreases, you're coming home, post deployment
Prevention
Army primary effort to reduce suicide
Sandflies
Attack man on wrists ankles, exposed parts
Sandfly fever
Avoid domestic dogs
Most effective means of malaria control
Avoiding mosquitoes
Active transmission
Biological transmission Pathogen May develop
Lice of military importance
Body Head And crab
Crushing vector
Body louse transmits epidemic typhus
Muscle memory
Brain creating physical pathways
Lyme disease sign
Bullseye rash
How to minimize malaria
Chemoprophylaxis
Cockroaches carry
Cholera
Associated w filth flies and cockroaches
Cholera Dysentry Typhoid Food borne gastroenteritis
Following activists hurt brain recovery
Cognitive thinking Inadequate sleep Physical exertion
Shell shock
Concussion or vacuum effects of exploding artillery shells and trench warfare
US Law requires what for each death
Death certificate
Lowest suicide rate month
December
Fecal contimination
Defecates into host Chagas disease
PTSD can be reliving combat in
Dreams Feeling revved up, anger, numb, avoidance
Radiation
Energy in form of heat radiates
Most useful thing you can do
Get professional help for someone
Medic role
Get them the help they need
Respiration
Heat leave body in breaths
Immediate
Highest priority Airway obstruction Open/tension pneumothorax Unstable abdominal wounds w shock Massive external bleeding Open long bone fractures Hemorrhagic shock
Filth flies and cockroaches habitat
Human waste
Snake bite treatment
IV Remove watches Evacuate, evaluate tetanus
Three objectives
Identify Remove stigma Get help
ATC
Identifying T thoughts during a situation A activating event C activating event has consequences
Chiggers
Immature stages of tiny red mite
Three person team for what
Immediate
Scabies found where
In skin folds
Ticks and mites are found
In tall grass
Envenomation
Injection of poisonous materials
Delayed
Less risk of losing life or limb by delayed treatment Open chest wound without respiratory distress Abdominal wound without shock Eye and nervous system injuries Soft wound tissues Other fractures open or closes Second/third degree burns more than 20% Maxillofocial trauma without airway obstruction GI tract disruption
Evaporation
Loss of heat through vaporization
Ticks also carry
Lyme disease
Ancient disease and most preventable
Malaria
Passive transmission
Mechanical transmission Arthropod carries pathogen from one host to another
As a health care provider, what is your goal
Minimize collateral damage
Most important arthropod for military
Mosquitoes
Ticks
Most efficient arthropod bc female can pass pathogen to egg
Triage establishes what
Order of treatment based on life signs, not if treatment is given
Key to recognize
Our thoughts drive our consequences or behavior
Medic job to
Overwatch soldiers
Snake bite
Pain and swelling Nausea Anaphylaxis
Lack of sleep has following effects
Performance Mood Health
Soldiers heart
Physiological signs of stress, chest pains, panic, sense of doom
Tactical awareness/fight or flight
Pre deployment training and experiences gained during deployment enhance body natural response to danger
Dialing up
Preparing yourself for a new deployment, anxiety increases
Army suicide prevention model is based on
Prevention, intervention and integration of installation and community resources
Risk factors with suicide
Previous attempt Family/friend lost through Previously abused drugs/alcohol
Resilience training
Provide soldiers w adaptive skills and thrive in face of adversity
Medics Do NOT
Provide treatment
Post traumatic stress disorder
Psychiatric disorder that can occur following the experience or witnessing of a life threatening event
Transportation of disposition is for what
Quartermaster
Burn out
Remaining at heightened response levels for extended periods
What to do with suicidal individual
Remove potential means of self harm Ask directly Convey concerns Get help
How to get rid of filth flies
Removing food sources
Who is in charge of triage
Senior medical person
Highest suicide rate month
September, January, April, October
Things that help concussion
Seven to eight hours of sleep Limit physical activity
Risk taking behaviors
Signs and symptoms can be seen as triggers Anger problems Sleep problems Alcohol Relationship RED FLAGS
Dial down
Soldiers have a hard time doing so bc they were dialed up for so long
Malaria must always be considered when
Soldiers is malaria infected place have unexplained febrile illness
Chloroquine
Standard antimalarial medication
Habitat for mosquitoes
Standing water
75 percent
Suicides triggered by relationship problems
Danger signs related to suicide
Talking about doing it Giving away possessions Withdrawal Specific plans
Mites habitat
Tall grass
TAIL
Tell them you're concerned All are impacted Insist they talk to someone Look for ways to help
What controls sleep?
The brain, not to the body
Convection
The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid
Mites
Tiny, barely visible
Conduction
Transfer of heat to another due to difference in temperature
Soldiers must learn how to do what at home
Transition from deployed mindset to home front mindset
Activating event
Trigger
Post traumatic stress (PTS)
Typical expected reactions to deployment stressors
Expectant
Unresponsive patient w head wounds Burns mostly third degree. 85% Spinal cord Mutilating explosive wounds Agonal breaths Convulsions and vomiting 24 hour past radiation exposure Open pelvic injury w uncontrolled bleeding
Inoculation
Vector injects pathogen w saliva Mosquitoes
Fleas
Vectors of plague, typhus, and tularemia
Brown recluse
Violin print on back
Reguritation
Vomits pathogen Fleas
Minimal
Walking wounds Minor combat stress problems Burns under 20% Upper extremity fractures without neurovascular compromise Behavioral disorders
Consequences
What we feel and do after an activating event
Thoughts
What we say to ourselves in the moment
Nostalgia
Young men losing all hope of returning safe and sound