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  2. Equipment of an American combat medic - Wikipedia

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    CAT, SOFT-T or improvised tourniquets. Tourniquets are used for the care under fire phase of tactical combat casualty care, to stop massive life-threatening hemorrhage. Noting that improvised tourniquets are seldom effective. Emergency Trauma Bandages, a newer version of the first aid pressure dressing.

  3. Tourniquet - Wikipedia

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    Tourniquet being applied to an arm on a training dummy A combat tourniquet commonly used by combat medics (military environment) and EMS (civilian environment).. A tourniquet is a device that is used to apply pressure to a limb or extremity in order to create ischemia or stopping the flow of blood.

  4. Emergency tourniquet - Wikipedia

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    Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT) 3.8: Windlass: Stick and strap inside outer sleeve Emergency & Military Tourniquet (EMT) 9.1: Pneumatic: Hand pump and inflatable bladder K 2 Tactical Tourniquet (K 2) 3.8: Clamp: Modified wood clamp Smart Tactical Application Tourniquet (S.T.A.T.) 2.5: Ratchet: Strap with ratcheting mechanism Last Resort ...

  5. Tactical emergency medical services - Wikipedia

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    A Marine practices applying a tourniquet to a mannequin during a tactical combat casualty care course. Tactical Emergency medical services (TEMS) is out-of-hospital care given in hostile situations by specially trained practitioners.

  6. Battlefield medicine - Wikipedia

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    The priority is to continue the combat mission, gain fire superiority, and then treat casualties. [36] The only medical treatment rendered in care under fire is the application of direct pressure on massive bleeding. [36] Tactical combat casualty care recommends a tourniquet as the single most important treatment at the point of injury. [36]

  7. List of U.S. government and military acronyms - Wikipedia

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    CAP - Combat Air Patrol; CAP - Civil Air Patrol; CAPT – Captain (U.S. Navy, USCG O-6) Capt – Captain (USMC O-3) CPT – Captain (U.S. Army, USAF O-3) CAS – Close Air Support; CASEX – Coordinated Anti-Submarine EXercise [9] CASEVAC – Casualty Evacuation; CATCombat Application Tourniquets; CBRN – Chemical Biological Radiological ...

  8. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    In both wars, context made it tricky to deal with moral challenges. What is moral in combat can at once be immoral in peacetime society. Shooting a child-warrior, for instance. In combat, eliminating an armed threat carries a high moral value of protecting your men. Back home, killing a child is grotesquely wrong.

  9. List of United States Marine Corps individual equipment

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    It includes several bandages, a tourniquet, burn ointment, some water purification tablets, and QuikClot combat gauze, a kaolin-infused gauze bandage. [29] Individual Water Purification System allows Marines to purify water to potable standards. [30] These can be compatible with the standard issue hydration pack, similar to CamelBak brand packs.

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