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  2. Equipment of an American combat medic - Wikipedia

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    Emergency Trauma Bandages, a newer version of the first aid pressure dressing.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.

  3. Preventive maintenance checks and services - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Field dressing (bandage) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Tactical Combat Casualty Care - Wikipedia

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    There are key components of a prehospital casualty response system, emphasize the importance of leadership, underscore the synergy achieved through collaboration between medical and nonmedical leaders, and provide an example to other organizations and communities striving to achieve success in trauma as measured through improved casualty ...

  6. Emergency Bandage - Wikipedia

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    A sterile non-adherent dressing to allow removing the bandage without reopening a wound. [2] A pressure applicator placed over the wound to stop bleeding by applying pressure. [2] It allows changing the direction of the bandage and wrapping it around the wound once in various directions. It also makes bandaging easier.

  7. Battlefield medicine - Wikipedia

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    Combat medics attend to Irish casualties following the opening attack of the Battle of Passchendaele, 1917. Battlefield medicine, also called field surgery and later combat casualty care, is the treatment of wounded combatants and non-combatants in or near an area of combat.

  8. Negative-pressure wound therapy - Wikipedia

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    An example of a vacuum bandage Negative pressure system used in a surgical wound in the right knee and thigh. The little vacuum pump is shown on the left of the photo, as is a subcutaneous drain. The dressing type used depends on the type of wound, clinical objectives and patient.

  9. Personal protective equipment - Wikipedia

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    A single item – for example, boots – may provide multiple forms of protection: a steel toe cap and steel insoles for protection of the feet from crushing or puncture injuries, impervious rubber and lining for protection from water and chemicals, high reflectivity and heat resistance for protection from radiant heat, and high electrical ...