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Emergency Trauma Bandages, a newer version of the first aid pressure dressing. Wound Packing Gauze, for stopping hemorrhage, or creating a bulky dressing. Hemostatic agents, such as Celox, Hemcon bandages, and others. Some hemostatic agents are controversial due to history of being exothermic and causing burns to the patient.
A sailor wraps a field dressing around a casualty's head. A field dressing or battle dressing is a kind of bandage intended to be carried by soldiers for immediate use in case of (typically gunshot) wounds. It consists of a large pad of absorbent cloth, attached to the middle of a strip of thin fabric used to bind the pad in place.
Most pieces of military equipment have PMCS charts used to go over every detail needed or noted to ensure the proper function of every mechanical item or non-mechanical surface. A PMCS check is required before, during, and after a piece of equipment or vehicle is used.
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APD prepared templates for use in Microsoft Word 97 for members of the Department of the Army. There are a number of other templates and documents purporting to be templates on the Army's milSuite collaboration site. This page provides a scaffolding for other users to publish Microsoft Word templates.
A battle casualty other than killed in action who has incurred an injury due to an external agent or cause. The term encompasses all kinds of wounds and other injuries incurred in action, whether there is a piercing of the body, as in a penetrating or perforated wound, or none, as in the contused wound; all fractures, burns, blast concussions, all effects of biological and chemical warfare ...
Common wound types include gunshots to the extremities. A person may achieve a similar effect by deliberately neglecting their health, e.g., by letting a minor wound become infected, or foregoing foot care in damp environments to trigger the development of diseases like trench foot and tropical ulcers, which are debilitating but not usually fatal or permanent if treated properly.
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