CLS COURSE TEST REVIEW

Brought to you by the 602d ASB Medical Section

What percentage of battlefield casualties can we save?

Name the 3 phases of Tactical Combat Casualty Care.

-What is the most important goal while taking hostile fire? -In what phase do we make the most difference?

What is the first thing you do when approaching an unconscious soldier?

-What does AVPU stand for? -When do we worry about Cspine injury?

How do you treat an unresponsive casualty that is not breathing and has no pulse?

An unconscious patient not breathing. How do you open her airway?

A semi-conscious patient is only breathing once every 15 seconds.

-How would you maintain the patients airway? -When would you not perform this intervention?

A casualty is lying on his back. You notice an open chest wound over his left chest. He is talking to you and breathing with difficulty.
-What do you do next? -How do you treat this wound? -What life-threatening problem may develop? How would you treat it?

You just applied a field dressing to an extremity wound.

-What should you do next? -What are your courses of action if the wound continues to bleed?

A patients right leg was penetrated by a metal pole during an explosion. How would you remove the object and treat the wound?

You have just applied a tourniquet to the patients right leg after a traumatic ankle amputation.
-What should you do next? -What if you have continued bleeding?

What is a chitosan dressing? What is it used for? What if the wound still bleeds?

Which lines in a 9-line MEDEVAC need to be transmitted before the ambulance will begin its mission? Which line may be omitted?

Do all improvised litters require poles?