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68W COMBAT MEDIC FIELDCRAFT MODULES I-III QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ALREADY PASSED What are the tactical indications for spinal immobilization Motor vehicle accident, Fall greater than 15 ft, IED blast involving a MRAP Overpressure wave (internal damage to hollow organs) Primary Blast Shrapnel and debris penetrating wounds Secondary Blast Casualty is thrown into a solid object Tertiary Blast What is the leading cause of preventable death on the battlefield Extremity Hemorrhage W...

1. According to the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma (ACS-COT), an adult trauma patient should be transported to the highest level of trauma center if he or she: A) was involved in a motor vehicle crash in which another patient in the same vehicle was killed. B) has a systolic blood pressure of less than 110 mm Hg or a heart rate greater than 110 beats/min. C) has a bleeding disorder or takes anticoagulant medications and has any blunt or penetrating injury. D) has a GCS sco...

Field Craft 1 Questions And Revised Correct Answers Three categories of hemorrhage and percent of occurance - CORRECT ANS : Extremity 13.5% Junctional 19.2% Truncal 67.3% Percent of combat fatalities survivable by early intervention and rapid evacuation - CORRECT ANS : 24% The majority of combat related wounds are due to what? - CORRECT ANS : Penetrating trauma What are the tactical indications for spinal immobilization? - CORRECT ANS : Motor vehicle crashes, Falls from greater than...

BLAST INJURIESIt refers to the injuries sustained from a blast wave from high explosives that can cause multisystem trauma. Primary Secondary Tertiary QuaternaryTypes of Blast injuries PrimaryTypes of Blast injuries; - injury from over-pressurization force (blast wave) impacting the body surface; ex: IM rupture, pulmonary damage, air embolization and viscous injury

What are the tactical indications for spinal immobilization - Ans Motor vehicle accident, Fall greater than 15 ft, IED blast involving a MRAP Overpressure wave (internal damage to hollow organs) - Ans Primary Blast Shrapnel and debris penetrating wounds - Ans Secondary Blast Casualty is thrown into a solid object - Ans Tertiary Blast What is the leading cause of preventable death on the battlefield - Ans Extremity Hemorrhage Why is extremity hemorrhaging the leading cause of death on the b...

68W COMBAT MEDIC FIELDCRAFT MODULES I-III UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers What are the tactical indications for spinal immobilization - Correct Answer- Motor vehicle accident, Fall greater than 15 ft, IED blast involving a MRAP Overpressure wave (internal damage to hollow organs) - Correct Answer- Primary Blast Shrapnel and debris penetrating wounds - Correct Answer- Secondary Blast Casualty is thrown into a solid object - Correct Answer- Tertiary Blast

What are the tactical indications for spinal immobilization - Motor vehicle accident, Fall greater than 15 ft, IED blast involving a MRAP Overpressure wave (internal damage to hollow organs) - Primary Blast Shrapnel and debris penetrating wounds - Secondary Blast Casualty is thrown into a solid object - Tertiary Blast What is the leading cause of preventable death on the battlefield - Extremity Hemorrhage

What are the first three steps for starting a project? - ANSWER 1 ) Choose 2) Read literature 3) Obtain DNA sequence Once you obtain the DNA sequence in the beginning of a project, BLAST will allow what? - ANSWER "Basic Local Alignment Search Tool" - To search for homology (duplication events) - Can predict protein, molecular weight, pI, and extinction coefficient - Predict the secondary/tertiary structure, transmembrane helices, ubiquitation sites, etc

What are the effects of an explosion? - Thermal Effect Blast Pressure Effect Fragmentation Effect T/F: Thermal effecs are generally the most damaging of the three primary effects? - False; Fragmentation is usually the most damaging. What is important to know about thermal effect high explosives? - They produce higher temperature thermal effects but for a shorter duration. What is important to know about thermal effect low explosives? - They produce lower temperature thermal effects but...

How do most soldiers die? 90%? correct answer: Hemorrhage 90.9% 2% tension pneumothorax (solved by needle chest compression) 8% died from airway obstruction (solved by cricothyroidotomy or other airway maneuvers) Where do most injuries occur? correct answer: Extremeties-60% Head and Neck region-25% Torso-9% Of total combat deaths how many soldiers could have been saved? correct answer: 24.3% Of hemorrhagic deaths what is the highest percent? correct answer: truncal, 67.3% ...