Corpsman manual ch 20 Flashcards
what is a sterile pad or compress (usually made of gauze or cotton wrapped in gauze) used to cover wounds to control bleeding and prevent further contamination?
dressing
Dressings should be large enough to cover the entire area of the wound and extend at least what amount in every direction beyond the wound edges?
1 inch
Most prepackaged battle dressings are how many tailed bandages for use of bandaging extremity, abdominal, and head wounds?
4
the most common types of bandages are the roller and what other bandages?
triangular
for the hand and wrist, what type of bandage is ideal?
figure eight
due to shape of the what, it is one of the most difficult parts of the body to bandage?
heel
what bandage must be used to cover wounds of the forearm and lower extremities?
spiral reverse
what bandage is frequently used for fractures of the lower jaw and to retain compresses to the chin?
Barton
Triangular bandages are usually made of what?
Muslin
What is a small and lightweight one-handed tourniquet that completely occludes arterial blood flow in an extremity?
Combat application tourniquet
what is a medical device that measures the oxygen saturation of a patient’s blood and changes in blood volume in the sin, producing a photoplethysmograph?
pulse oximeter
there are two types of fluids used for intravenous drips, crystalloids and what else?
colloids
the most commonly used crystalloid fluid is normal what?
saline
the amount of normal saline depends on the needs of the patient (ongoing diarrhea or heart failure) but is typically between 1.5 and how many liters a day for an adult?
3
what is a synthetic plasma expander that works by producing expansion of plasma blood volume?
hetastarch