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Corpsman Funds Flashcards

1
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Define Caduceus

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Short staff entwined by 2 serpents, sometimes surmounted by wings; rating Symbol of hm

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What year was the first direction given to the organization of navy medicine published?

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1775

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3
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When is the hospital corps birthday and who signed it into effect?

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17, June 1898 and president William McKinley

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4
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How many medal of honors were earned in Vietnam

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5
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What is BUMED

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The Head quarters of navy medicine

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6
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What is MANMED

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The Manual of the medical department

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What is the chain of command

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  • commanding officer
  • executive officer
  • command master chief
  • director of nursing services
  • head of inpatient nursing department
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What is a catastrophic event

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And adverse event caused by:

  • death/ major loss of function not related to natural course of patients illness or underlying condition
  • suicide
  • rape
  • hemolytic transfusion reaction
  • surgery of procedure on the wrong patient or body part
  • infant abduction/ discharge to wrong family
  • death/ major permanent loss of function that is direct result of unauthorized departure, or result of assault or other crime
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What is the navy safety program

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  • non-punitive approach to report events to identify trends needing improvement
  • builds trust and communication
  • means to report/identify actual/potential problems
  • creates forum to implement remediation rather then punish
  • promotes culture of safety
  • focuses on improving systems and processes to overcome preventable errors
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What is a Code pink

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Infant or child abduction

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What is a code green?

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Internal or external mass casualty

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12
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What is the health promotion and wellness program

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Ensuring healthy living through various sources and education in providing tools to assist individuals in gathering helpful information

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Define Lethal agents

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Agents that result in a ten percent of greater death rate among casualties

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Define nerve agents

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Interfere with normal transmission of nerve impulses in the parasympathetic autonomic nervous system

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Nerve agents

G agents

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Sarin (gb)

Tabun (ga)

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16
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Nerve agents

V agents

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VX most lethal nerve gas in history

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Nerve agents

Novichok agents

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Soviet era nerve gas, alleged to be most lethal agent( not proven) and at least 5 times more lethal then vx

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18
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What are blister agents

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Causes large blisters, respiratory distress, severe vomiting, burns and temporary blindness

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19
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Name blister agents

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  • sulfur mustards (hd)
  • nitrogen mustards (hn)
  • lewisite (l)
  • phosgene oxime (cx)
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What is hydrogen cyanide

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Colorless has or liquid almond odor

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21
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What are chocking agent actions

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  • Laryngospasm/bronchospasam
  • chest tightness and dysphasia
  • tachypnea, dysnea, wheezing, pronounced expiratory noises
  • pulmonary edema secondary to alveolar/capillary membrane injury
  • causes damage to eyes and throat
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Name choking agents

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  • chlorine gas
  • phosgene
  • diphosgene
  • chloropicrin
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What is phosgene(cg)

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It was responsible for 85% of chemical deaths in WWI and it renders extensive injury to alveolar tissue

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24
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What are the duties or a loblolly boy?

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Maintaining cleanliness of cockpit

Provide water and containers to hold amputated limbs

Filled containers with coal to heat tar used in hemorrhage control

Filled buckets of sand for blood soaked floors

25
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What year was loblolly boy classified a rate

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1814

26
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List 2 be if it’s of being at surgeons steward

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Paid 18$ a months plus one extra ration

Not discharged without consent of officer above them

27
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Who was the fist corpsman to revive the Medal of Honor

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Hospital apprentice Robert Stanley

28
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What is the name of the hm pictured in the flag raising on mount surinachi during the battle or Iwo Jima

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Pharmacist mate john Bradley

29
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What year did congress establish the women accepted for volunteer services (waves)

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12 Jan 1944

30
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Which famous marine leader said you guys are the Marines doctors there’s no better in the business then a Navy corpsman

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Lieutenant General Louis b chesty Puller

31
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How many chapters are in the manmed

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23

32
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What is the insignia for the medical service corps

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A gold Oakleaf with a branch at the base

33
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What is the insignia for the medical corps

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A gold Oakleaf with a silver acorn in the center

34
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What is the insignia of the dental corps

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A gold Oakleaf with two silver acorns at the base

35
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What is the insignia of the nurse corps

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A gold Oakleaf

36
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What is bumed

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The centralized administrative organization of navy medicine and guardian of healthcare for the department of the Navy

37
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When was bumed established

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31 August 1842

38
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What is bumeds leadership

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It’s the Surgeon General which is a vice Admiral and a force master chief

39
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What is the nomenclature of manmed

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Navmed p-117

40
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How long is this day for a major adverse event

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More than three days

41
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How long is the stay for a moderate adverse event

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Less then three days

42
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How long is the stay for a minor adverse event

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No days

43
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What does MTF stand for

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Military treatment facility

44
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What does PSC stand for

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Patient safety center

45
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In what order do you report safety concerns

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Chain of command, patient safety officer/representative, close call/near miss reporting forms, Hospital hotline

46
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Define tobacco cessation

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Patient focused programs employing variety of proven self-help, behavioral, Psychological, And pharmacological approaches

47
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Define operational stress control

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Program designed to help sailors, commands and families and recognizing stressors, reactions to stress and apply effective and appropriate intervention

48
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What does a unhealthy lifestyle cause

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Social/ economic burden

Degrade mission readiness

Decrease deployability/performance levels

49
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Where is a fleet health promotional consultant

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Ships only

50
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What is a sfo

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Semper sit officer

51
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What are the benefits to navy’s health promotional program

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Improved command/ individual readiness

Reduced health care costs/ lost man power

A fitter war fighting force

52
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Define combatants

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Anyone participating in military operations and activities

53
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Define lawful combatants

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One authorized to take up arms in service or a sovereign state

54
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Define DD form 1394

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Special Geneva convention identification issued to all us dod humanitarian personnel

55
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What are the purpose of the loac

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Integrate humanity into war

Preserve the fundamental rights of persons who fall into the hands of the enemy

Assist in restoring peace

56
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What was the loac established through

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Hauge convention-1893

Geneva convention 1949
-4 conventions 1864, 1906, 1929

57
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What are the 4 treaties of the Geneva convention

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Wounded and sick in the field

Wounded, sick and ship wrecked at sea

POWs

Civilians

58
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What happens to medical and chaplains if they are captured

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They are considered neutral

59
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Can medical units be attacked

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No because the are not hostile

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