Combat medicine lessons overview

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The Battle Dome Clinic presents - Combat First Aid – an introduction

What takes place in handwaved lessons:

Wednesday and Sunday afternoons and evenings: 3:00pm to 9:00pm, break for an hour for students, barring drafts and kidnappings and experiments.

Each lesson will take place over two days – Wednesday will be theory and some hands on learning. Sunday will be all hands on.

At the end of each lesson there will be hands on testing for students to see what they’ve learned. Anything from previous lessons is fair game. ANYTHING. Be prepared.

Lessons are intensive and cover a lot of material. This is not covered at the level a doctor should know, but at a level a first responder or junior medic should. Your character will be assumed to know nothing about medicine unless Law knows ICly differently.

Lessons will take place in one of the Battledome Simulators. This is for ease of practice – conjured holograms to practice on are safe for everyone. However: At the end of each lesson, the holograms will be made with realistic wounds. This will made clear at the beginning of lessons. This is so your character is used somewhat to the blood and smells and sights that’s inevitable when they encounter these things in real life. This is not a course for the squeamish. At all.

Students will be kicked out of lessons if they’re misbehaving and only there to fool around.


Lesson 1:

What to expect out in a fight, especially on the draft for New Feathers in the class
Assessing the situation – aka the look before you leap into things or you could end up as bad or worse than the person you are aiding (SHOUNEN TYPES, THIS MEANS YOU!)
Keeping your cool and being aware of what’s going on around you
Introduction to your medkit – Bandages, instruments, medications etc. What you need in a medical kit. A simple medical kit should have... A good medical kit should have... What a great kit should contain...
The ABCs of care – basic things you must always keep in mind, priorities for your patient, danger signals that things are going bad (possible heart attack and stroke)
How to recognise shock
How to treat shock
Mouth to mouth resuscitation
Basic Airway management
CPR
Choking

Lesson 2:

Cuts, abrasions, and lacerations, and other bleeding wounds – an overview
Infection and YOU – universal precautions and why blood contact is a bad bad thing
Wound cleaning and disinfection
Bandaging techniques – how, where, and when to use dressings – straightforward injuries
Band-Aids, 4x4s, Roller Gauze, Triangular, Tape, Cold Packs and Hot Packs. Trauma Dressings, Blood stoppers, Battle Dressings
Safe removal of foreign objects – simple - example: small splinters
How to use tourniquets and different kinds of tourniquets
Suturing overview and practice

Lesson 3:

Blunt trauma introduction – contusions, concussions, broken bones, internal bleeding, crush injuries… etc. What they are and how to recognize
Strains and sprains
Treating concussions – What to do
Setting and splinting limbs – simple breaks
Dislocations
Head and spinal injuries – how to manage and move patients without harming them
Suturing practice

Lesson 4:

Advanced bandaging - Gun Shot Wounds, Head Wounds, Chest Wounds, Abdominal Wounds, Lacerations, Trauma to the Limbs, Traumatic Amputations
Shrapnel and splinters – incisions, excisions, bandaging around them
Wound drainage
Cauterization
Suturing practice

Lesson 5:

Overview: Advanced Blunt trauma and airway management
Head Trauma – when it’s more than just a concussion
Complex breaks – how to deal
Internal bleeding management
Crush injuries and DIC (disseminated intravascular coagulation)
Multiple trauma – what takes priority
Suturing practice

Lesson 6:

Overview: Enviromental dangers
Exposure
Cramps
Altitude sickness
Frostnip and Frostbite
Heatstroke and exhaustion
Insect, spider, animal, and snake bites and stings
Allergic reactions up to anaphylactic shock – what to do
Poisons – animal and plant based – treatment

Lesson 7:

Overview: Burns – what they are and what kinds
Infection! So common here
What ELSE to look out for aside from the burn
Electrical shock
Chemical burns
Basic burn care – cleaning, salves, and dressing
Managing the patient – what to do and not do

Lesson 8:

Overview: Dealing with illness
Infection control – stop that spread
Fever
Fainting
Seizures
Wound Infection
Gastroenteritis
Food and waterborne illness
Parasites

Lesson 9:

Overview: Field hospital basic procedures
Ongoing patient care
Taking blood
Injections
IVs
Transfusions – typing, transfusion reactions (what to look for), setting up, collection
Triage
Stress and Shellshock – psychological war injuries.

Lessons 10-12:* These lessons are only available to students who have demonstrated the aptitude, attitude, and maturity to handle them

Overview: Basic field surgical procedures and drugs
Antibotics
Blood clotting agents and thinners
Field Anesthesia - Locals (Infusion and Topical), Nerve Blocks, Sedation, Others
Other drugs
Advanced suturing techniques
Ligatures
Shunting
Tracheotomy
Surgical debridement
Others

For more in depth information on the stuff being taught, check out this link here on the exact procedures being used.


If there are any questions, please ping me here.