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   Advanced Field Surgery



The Student WILL: Use surgical instruments to "reshape" a laceration for suturing. Suture a laceration. Extract a projectile (a real bullet) from a patient with instruments. Make incisions with surgical instruments such as a scalpel and surgical scissors. With a syringe and lidocaine, the student will use locals to numb the laceration. The student will give Intramuscular (IM) injections.


   Bandages and Dressings

Dressings: Band-Aids, Telfa, 4x4s, Roller Gauze, Triangular, Kerlex, Tape, Cold Packs and Hot Packs. Trauma Dressings, Battle Dressings, Pharmacy.

Advanced Bandaging: Gun Shot Wounds, Head Wounds, Chest Wounds, Abdominal Wounds, Lacerations, Trauma to the Limbs, Traumatic Amputations, Pharmacy.

The Student WILL: Apply specific dressings and bandages such as Kerlix, medicated 4x4s, dressings to the limbs and fingers, safely apply dressings to a severely damage head, eyes and the neck. The student will apply battle dressings, bandages for sucking chest wounds and other life endangering conditions

   Fractures

Fracture Management: (Casting!) Immobilization, Splinting, Moving a patient. Diagnosing, Setting, Casting, Removal of a cast. Expedient casting.

The Student WILL: Professionally apply a plaster cast to the forearm.


   Pain Management and Anesthesia

Anesthesia: Locals (Infusion and Topical), Sedation, Pain Management, Pharmacy.

The Student WILL: draw up a syringe of fluid and inject it around a wound to numb it before suturing or minor surgery.

   Sterile Technique

Masking and Gowning and Gloving: Working in sterile conditions. Also, providing a sterile field upon which to perform surgery such as suturing and minor surgery.

The Student WILL: Successfully don sterile surgical gown, sterile surgical glove and surgical mask exactly that way it should be done.


   Dental

Field Dentistry : Replacement of lost fillings, replacement and recementing of lose crowns, Lancing of abscesses, Fractured jaws.


   EMP

Electromagnetic Pulse: EMP always accompanies a nuclear explosion. It is the end of comfortable life as we know it. There will be no more electricity unless you know how to protect your electrical devises.


   Nuclear

Nuclear Defense Issues: What to expect in the way of a strike (Power Plants, Dirty Bombs, Nuclear Bombs, Thermonuclear Bombs, Sheltering, Shielding, Decontamination, Barrier garments such as expedient suiting and masking.


   Biological

Biological Preparedness: Anthrax, Plague, Cholera, Smallpox, Other Biological Agents, Prophylaxis and Treatment-- including Pharmacy,


   Chemical

Chemical Response: Dealing with and living through chemical weapons such as Nerve Agents, Medical Response, Pharmacy.


   Pharmacy

Alternative and Conventional Medications: Homeopathic, Naturopathic, Allopathic. pain medications, blood pressure medications, antibiotics and other.


   Other: Birth, Death, Alternative energy, Sanitation, Water purification.

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