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