Combat Medic 68W: Fieldcraft 3 Exam C168W144
Vector
A carrier that transports a disease causing organism or pathogen
Staged ascent
Altitude ascent in which soldiers ascend to moderate altitude and acclimatize for 3 days before going higher
Graded ascent
Altitude ascent in which soldiers spend two nights at one altitude and limit sleep to no more than 1,000 feet higher than the previous night
High Altitude Cerebral Edema (HACE)
Altitude disorder that causes brain swelling
A "trigger"
Another name for an activating event?
Prevention
Army's primary measure against suicide?
CLEAN, don't OVERDRESS, LOOSE and in layers, and DRY
COLD acronym
Redness or cyanosis, blue and red patches
Chilblains signs
Flies and cockroaches
Cholera, dysentery, typhoid, and food-born gastroenteritis are associated with what vectors?
Trench foot
Common name for immersion syndrome
Anger problems, sleep problems, alcohol, Relationship problems
Common problems that affects soldiers when they come home from deployment?
Lyme disease
Disease that causes a "bulls-eye" rash
No, it establishes the order of treatment based on life signs of the casualty
Does triage establish whether treatment is given?
Radiation
Energy transferred by waves or rays through the air
Climate, season, weather
Factors that make you susceptible to cold weather injuries
80%
Fatality rate of heatstroke if left untreated
Remove means of self-harm
First thing to do when dealing with a suicidal individual
Minimize "Collateral damage"
GOAL as a healthcare provider for Combat Resilience training
Altered mental status
Hallmark sign of Heatstroke
High Altitude Pulmonary Edema (HAPE)
High altitude disorder that causes pulmonary edema
Bodily contact
How are lice easily transmitted
It creates physical pathways (muscle memory)
How does the brain help you react to your environment?
24-48 hours
How long it takes after warming to asses frostbite
10 degrees
How much MOPP or and IBA increases the WBGT temperature
quiet and dark
How to keep quarters for those with head injuries
Rectal thermometer
How to obtain a accurate core temperature reading
Passively and focus on the trunk
How to rewarm the body in a cold injury?
Warm affected area, DO NOT RUB TISSUE and DO NOT APPLY HEAT OR ICE
How to treat chilblains
Warm the area using steady pressure of the hand, underarm, or abdomen
How to treat frostbite
People who have witnessed a natural disaster, serious accident, terrorist incident, combat/war, violent personal assault such as rape, or other life-threatening events
In what kind of people can PTSD occur in?
Anniversary of a suicide of a close friend or family member, death of a loved one, suicide of a loved one, retirement
Key triggers of suicide
Evaporation
Loss of heat at the surface of vaporization
Nicotine and antihistamines
Medications that can affect a heat casualty
97-93 degrees
Mild hypothermia range
93-86 degrees
Moderate hypothermia range
January, April, September, October
Months with most suicides
Encephalitis
Mosquito born viral disease that involves the central nervous system
Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS)
Most common altitude disorder that includes headache, anorexia, vomiting, dizziness
Avoiding mosquito bites
Most effective control of malaria
Antibiotics
Most effective treatment for the plague
Malaria
Most preventable disease known to man
Get help
Most useful thing to do for a individual who is struggling with suicide?
Chiggers
Name for immature mites
Soldiers heart
Name of PTSD during the civil war
Shell shock
Name of PTSD in WWI
Nostalgia
Name of PTSD in the 18th century
Just listen to them
One of the best and most therapeutic things a medic can do for struggling soldiers
25%
Percentage of soldiers who reported stress reactions that may interfere with their ability to be emotionally close to others
80%
Percentage of suicides that gave warnings of their intentions
75%
Percentage of suicides that were triggered by relationship problems
Help them get the help they need
Role of the medic when it comes to soldiers looking for help
less then 86 degrees
Severe hypothermia range
Itching and small welts
Signs of Chigger bites
Painful spasms of skeletal muscles, headache, nausea, dehydration
Signs of heat injury
Tell them you are concerned, All are impacted by deployment, Insist they talk with someone, Look for ways to help
TAIL
Activating Event, Thoughts, and Consequences (ATC)
The ATC model
Conduction
The direct transfer of heat from one substance to another substance that it is touching.
Locating and removing the food sources
The key to eliminating the filth fly and cockroaches
Ticks
The most effective arthropod when it comes to disease transmission
Mosquitoes
The most important arthropod to the military
Convection
The transfer of thermal energy by the circulation or movement of a liquid or gas
Identify those in the platoon at risk, talk to your soldiers to normalize their behavior, empower soldiers to seek help
Three objectives for medics for resilience training
Remove clothing, gentle stretching of cramped muscles, provide rapid and active cooling
Treatment for a heat casualty
Manage ABCs, give IV, remove watches, keep casualty calm
Treatment for a snakebite
Apply ointment and laundering of clothing
Treatment for scabies
Fever and abdominal pain with diarrhea
Two most important signs of Malaria
Supportive
Type of treatment for Dengue fever (Transmitted by mosquitoes)
Sandfly
What Arthropod spread Leishmaniasis
"Over Watch"
What Combat Medics need to provide for soldiers when it comes to resilience training?
Delay treatment trying to capture the snake, suck the venom, place ice on the bite
What NOT to do for a snakebite
Mites
What arthropod carries Scabies?
The brain, not the body
What controls sleep?
Prepared to overcome challenges and thrive in the face of diversity
What happens to soldiers who are provided adaptive skills to deal with challenges?
It "dials-down"
What happens to your anxiety post-deployment
When the number of casualties exceeds the number of available medical capability
What is a MASCAL?
Wet Bulb Globe Thermometer
What is a WGBT
It enhances the body's natural response to danger (flight-or-fight)
What is important about pre-deployment training and experiences gained during deployment?
Control them because they can lead to deteriorating physical and mental performance
What is important to keep in mind when it comes to your post-deployment responses?
V-fib
What is the heart prone to if its hypothermic?
the medical sorting of casualties according to the type and seriousness of the injury; affords the greatest number of casualties the greatest chance of survival
What is triage?
Bio warfare agents
What plague and typhus can be potentially identified as
Malaria
What should be suspected if the casualty has unexpected febrile illness
102 degrees
What temperature to not lower the core body when treating a heat casualty
500 ml bolus of lactated ringers
What to do for a heat casualty with a altered mental status
Let them rest and sleep
What to do for soldiers who have concussions?
The sooner they get help, the better the outcome
What to remind soldiers when it comes to looking for help?
Passive Transmission (Mechanical Transmission)
When the arthropod carries a pathogen from one host to another and the pathogen is there "along for the ride"
Active Transmission (Biological Transmission)
When the disease causing agent undergoes some change in the body of the anthropod
Crushing the vector
When the host crushed the vector and the pathogen is rubbed into the skin
Fecal contamination
When the vector defecates into a wound onto the host
Inoculation
When the vector injects the pathogen into the host with its saliva while it feeds on the host
Regurgitation
When the vector vomits the pathogen into the host while it feeds
Wrists, hands, or exposed areas
Where Sandflies attack on the body
6500
Where altitude injuries can start
10,000 ft
Where altitude injuries commonly occur
Folds in the skin
Where scabies affects?
In an area containing all supplies
Where should delayed and minimal patients be cared?
Opposite arm that was bit
Where to apply an IV for a snakebite
Quartermaster and logistics
Who handles the dead?
New people in an area
Who is most likely to be affected by Sandfly Fever