HEMORRHAGE CONTROL AND HOMEOSTASIS

Question 1

What is the leading cause of preventable death on the battle field?

Answer 1

Hemorrhage

Question 2

What is the most common cause of massive external blood loss in combat?

Answer 2

Extremity Injury

Question 3

What are the TCCC approved tourniquets?

Answer 3

1. Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT)
2. Special Operations Forces Tourniquet - Tactical (SOFT - T)
3. Emergency and Military Tourniquet

Question 4

What can be used as a temporary measure and works most of the time for external bleeding and can even be used for carotid and femoral bleeding ?

Answer 4

Direct Pressure

Question 5

What TCCC approved Hemostatic Agent is the following?

1. Tested in ISR safety model
2. Widely fielded in the DOD
3. Recommended by the CoTCCC first choice

Answer 5

Combat gauze

Question 6

What TCCC approved Hemostatic Agent is the following?

1. May be used when combat gauze is not available
2. Active ingredient is chotosan, a mucoadhesive, it functions independent of the coagulation cascade
3. Studies have supported that chitosan dressings have been effective in stopping life threatening bleeding for surgical studies

Answer 6

Celox Gauze or Chito Gauze

Question 7

What TCCC approved Hemostatic Agent is the following?

1. First expanding wound dressing FDA-cleared for life threatening junctional bleeding
2. Syringe applicator injects compressed mini-sponges into deep wounds
3. Mini-sponges rapidly expand on contact with blood compressing the wound to stop bleeding
4. It is imperative when used that the manufacture card is carried along with the casualty to assist with removal

Answer 7

XStat (Best for deep narrow tract Junctional wounds)

Question 8

Junctional wounds refer to what areas?

Answer 8

1. Groin
2. Buttocks
3. Perineum
4. Axillae
5. Base of the neck
6. Extremities at sites to proximal for limb TQs

Question 9

True or False

Junctional wounds are not amenable to TQs but are compressible

Answer 9

True

Question 10

What are the CoTCCC Junctional Tourniquets?

Answer 10

1. Combat Ready Clamp
2. Junctional Emergency Tool
3. SAM Junctional Tourniquet

Question 11

Tourniquet Placement

Apply TQ __ to __ inches above the bleeding site

Answer 11

2 to 3 inches

Question 12

Hemostatic dressings should be applied with at least ___ minutes of direct pressure

Answer 12

3 minutes

Question 13

What are the TCCC approved Hemostatic Agents?

Answer 13

1. Combat Gauze
2. Celox gauze or Chito gauze
3. XStat

Question 14

What is a junctional pressure device that can be used in tactical situation when traditional methods of dressings and pressure do not work to control bleeding in the inguinal region?

Answer 14

Junctional Emergency Treatment Tool (JETT)