What a Recruit Needs to Know About Tactical Medicine: An Army Medic Explains

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What a Recruit Needs to Know About Tactical Medicine: An Army Medic Explains

Partial mobilization has been announced in Russia since September 19. The men who received the summons are provided with all the necessary uniforms and are sent to undergo training, as well as the coordination of military units.

At the same time, during a military conflict, a fighter must not only have the skills to use one or another weapons, but also to know the necessary basics of tactical medicine. After all, every minute of delay in helping the wounded can cost him his life.



It is worth noting that the first-aid kits of the military personnel of the RF Armed Forces have all the necessary means to save the life and health of a wounded soldier. At the same time, there are nuances of their use, which will be useful for recruits to know.

In particular, in addition to medicines and other means, a marker must be present in a tactical first-aid kit. Preferably permanent, which will not be erased when transporting a wounded soldier.

After applying a tourniquet and administering an anesthetic, it is imperative to write the date and time of the manipulation on any part of the fighter's body. In the case of a tourniquet, this will help save the wounded limb.

Information about the time of administration of the painkiller will be needed by the anesthesiologist, who will not be able to make other drug injections without knowing what the fighter was injected with earlier.

Also, one of the specific means in a tactical first-aid kit is a special plaster, which is used for lung damage (pneumothorax). It is important to seal the inlet and outlet of the wound as quickly as possible. In case of delay, the fighter may lose his lung.

However, there are other nuances that the military medic shares in the video below from the Russkiy Dom channel.
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    1. -2
      27 September 2022 13: 13
      It is also necessary to add antiemetics to the first aid kit without fail, otherwise vomiting, antidiarrheals, as well as cotton wool and bandages, an antiseptic, and many different antibiotics, Dexamethasone, which relieves swelling of internal organs, may open in case of injury and pain shock ...
      Harnesses are yesterday ... although if there is nothing else, a tourniquet is fine
      Do not interfere with the digestive tract and omez, almagel and the like
      1. +3
        27 September 2022 13: 24
        Opa, enlighten, how to stop arterial bleeding for an hour and a half? And then something did not hear anything else
        1. 0
          27 September 2022 13: 31
          Wake up in another place, they came up with a Turnstile a long time ago, you can also use Aminocaproic acid
          Another pressing of the artery, it depends on the case
          1. -1
            27 September 2022 13: 51
            It is practically impossible to stop arterial bleeding in combat. They need urgent qualified help. Depends on the injury, of course. If the femoral artery, you can immediately cross the wounded and go with God.
            The film "Black Hawk Down" is immediately remembered when even a trained orderly could not help a soldier with a broken femoral artery
          2. +2
            27 September 2022 13: 59
            Quote: Saboteur_Navy
            a long time ago came up with a turnstile,

            Experienced fighters say...
            The turnstile is good when you have a clear mind - you can deal with it and adjust it.
            The tourniquet is applied several times faster and on instincts, without looking..
            Quote: Saboteur_Navy
            Aminocaproic acid

            Firstly, it is intravenous, i.e. dropper.
            Secondly - all sorts of various medicines can / should be in the possession of a medical soldier, with a minimum medical ... Otherwise, arrange for yourself without understanding ...
            1. 0
              27 September 2022 14: 24
              Quote: Genry
              Experienced fighters say...
              The turnstile is good when you have a clear mind - you can deal with it and adjust it.

              I don’t know what kind of experienced fighters you are talking about here! But I know for sure that an experienced fighter with experience will use a turnstile or a medical plant or a cat. The turnstile is easy to use, there is no need to adjust it, there is a knob with which you clamp more precisely, plus there is a place to record the time, you don’t need to invent it. If you are not conscious, then your comrades, your own turnstile will be installed for you.
              Esmarch's tourniquet, lubrication with oil imitates blood since it is oily and try to tighten it on a limb, and if you overdo it, you can tear it. Inexperienced soldiers quickly understand and impose a tourniquet than a tourniquet.
              In general, you should have two tourniquets in your first-aid kit, two esmarch tourniquets. And learn, learn to impose them.
            2. 0
              27 September 2022 14: 28
              Aminocaproic acid

              Firstly, it is intravenous, i.e. dropper.
              Secondly - all sorts of various medicines can / should be in the possession of a medical soldier, with a minimum medical ... Otherwise, arrange for yourself without understanding ...

              Yes, arterial hypertension cannot be stopped with drugs, only mechanics.
              This is how it looks like:

              1. +1
                27 September 2022 15: 02
                illustrative video, but the thigh is very short, this is a piglet as a teaching aid
            3. +1
              27 September 2022 14: 53
              Quote: Genry
              The tourniquet is applied several times faster and on instincts, without looking..

              I'll add the same. Try to put a tourniquet on your hand while greasing your hands as well. The turnstile can be both thrown on and tied around the hand while acting with one hand.
        2. 0
          27 September 2022 19: 20
          I'm not a doctor, I'll tell you straight away. But we had to take our guys out of Afghanistan. Those on the wound had the time written on it, someone right on the forehead ...
    2. 0
      27 September 2022 13: 40
      It is worth noting that the first-aid kits of the military personnel of the RF Armed Forces have all the necessary means to save the life and health of a wounded soldier. At the same time, there are nuances of their use, which will be useful for recruits to know.

      In particular, in addition to medicines and other means, a marker must be present in a tactical first-aid kit.
      So he should, or is? Why this video with a tactical pharmacy backpack, where a masked person cannot explain why it is necessary to loosen the tactical tourniquet after 30-40 minutes?
    3. 0
      27 September 2022 14: 01
      A video is circulating on messengers, where a certain female soldier explains to the mobilized that they will be provided with uniforms, armor, and first-aid kits and medicines should have everything with them. She also asked that they have with them women's pads for insoles in shoes and women's tampons, so that they could plug them into shrapnel and bullet wounds. o_o
      It turns out that the mobilized will not be provided with first-aid kits?
      1. -1
        27 September 2022 17: 59
        I read the comments of people, they write that the video that I mentioned above was probably filmed at the end of winter in the LNR or DNR and briefing, respectively, for the LDNR militias, because. All fighters wear winter uniforms.
    4. VVK
      +3
      27 September 2022 14: 08
      Such classes should be conducted by specialists in the field of medicine. The harm from improper medical care can be greater than its absence.
    5. -1
      27 September 2022 14: 35
      Again, here's the best on the subject. Although not a doctor explains. wink
      From 10 minutes and from 14.30 about first aid kits.

    6. -2
      27 September 2022 19: 15
      Tactical medicine? Yes, go to hell.
    7. 0
      30 September 2022 14: 23
      Of course, at present, it is advisable for all risk groups to study a couple of manuals on VPM. At the same time, thanks for the video, even if it was not as informative as it could be (examples of applying tourniquets to the upper and lower extremities, reviewing modern tourniquet models, scheduling actions during shock, etc., all this would not take more half an hour).
      For my part, I welcome such informational videos on VO, this can save someone's life.

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