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What should be done prior to administering opioids or ketamine? - ANSWER- Document mental status

What can Ketamine and OTFC potentially due to severe TBI? - ANSWER- Worsen the injury

What are antibiotics recommended for? - ANSWER- All penetrating wounds

Antibiotic given to patient if ABLE to take PO - ANSWER- Moxifloxacin (400 mg once daily)

Antibiotic given to patient if UNABLE to take PO - ANSWER- Ertapenum (1 g IV/IM once daily)

What is the most important contraindication to antibiotics? - ANSWER- Burn casualties

The three Tactical Combat Casualty Care phases of care - ANSWER- Care under fire, tactical field care, tactical evacuation care

The three goals of Tactical Combat Casualty Care - ANSWER- Complete the mission, prevent additional casualties, treat the casualties

Role 1 - ANSWER- The first medical care a soldier receives

Role 2 - ANSWER- Operations operated by the area support squad, medical treatment platoon, or medical companies

Role 3 - ANSWER- Casualty treated at MTF

Role 4 - ANSWER- Medical care found in CONUS-based hospitals

Urgent classification evacuation time - ANSWER- 1 hour

Urgent-Surgical classification evacuation time - ANSWER- 1 hour

Priority classification evacuation time - ANSWER- 4 hours

Routine classification evacuation time - ANSWER- 24 hours

Convenience classification evacuation time - ANSWER- Whenever convenient 10,000 ft Where altitude injuries commonly occur

10 degrees How much MOPP or and IBA increases the WBGT temperature

24-48 hours How long it takes after warming to asses frostbite

25% Percentage of soldiers who reported stress reactions that may interfere with their ability to be emotionally close to others

75% Percentage of suicides that were triggered by relationship problems

80% Percentage of suicides that gave warnings of their intentions

80% Fatality rate of heatstroke if left untreated

93-86 degrees Moderate hypothermia range

97-93 degrees Mild hypothermia range

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

6500 Where altitude injuries can start

Activating Event, Thoughts, and Consequences (ATC) The ATC model

Active Transmission (Biological Transmission) When the disease causing agent undergoes some change in the body of the anthropod

Acute Mountain Sickness (AMS)

Most common altitude disorder that includes headache, anorexia, vomiting, dizziness

Altered mental status Hallmark sign of Heatstroke

Anger problems, sleep problems, alcohol, Relationship problems Common problems that affects soldiers when they come home from deployment?

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

Antibiotics Most effective treatment for the plague

Apply ointment and laundering of clothing Treatment for scabies

Avoiding mosquito bites Most effective control of malaria

Bio warfare agents What plague and typhus can be potentially identified as

Bodily contact How are lice easily transmitted

The brain, not the body What controls sleep?