Recent content by Doc_D

Your right, because we dont eat, sleep, or need rest. Were constantly out putting tournakits on random people we dont know. My whole unit is here in J-bad, we run all the FOBS and COPS round here. Im sorry we have internet and dont live :censored::censored::censored::censored:ty lives like you...

My zones dont compare to yours in any way. We do many things that are paramedic level and we improvise our own equipment because we dont have as abundant equipment as you, nor is our hospital down the road like yours. In some places a MEDEVAC wont come for 3 hours and im stuck using all my...

Well, to my knowledge Saline is a crystalloid correct? You need to remember that what i do is very different from civilian EMS. All 3 of my fluids have a general purpose. The 4 main threats on the battle field are... -Hemmorage -Airway -Pnuemothorax -Hypothermia I carry Normal saline...

I dont push blood, i dont carry blood. If one of my guys has lost large volumes of blood and he has no radial pulse, i will start pushing hextend wchich is a volumizer. The bird's carry blood though, but my hextend will hold them solid for the time being

I keep moleskin for patrols and whatnot, but for mounted operations its not neccesary. I keep a lot of Ibeuprofin its with all my other OTC's/ I appreciate it

We dont always have the supplies for it, and not every casualty needs fluids. They all get saline locks though. I only push fluids when a radial pule isnt present,atleast for the hextend. I keep LR's for the burn casualties. Saline i use for the heat casualties and as back up if i dont hextend...

This is my aidbag, it is a stomp II. I keep a penlight and trauma shiers on the side. This is where i keep all my hemmorage control :censored::censored::censored::censored:. I got a bunch of CAT tournakits, Kerlix, ACE wraps, 3" medical tape, ETB (Emergency Trauma Bandages aka...

just what the army needs, more non-army personell on post. It pisses me off because ambulance work is great experience for new whiskeys

62 and i passed, 1st time go

Which FOB in Jbad were you at?

Lol everyone hates the rakkasans and aviations...but hey every division has their war criminals. But a bunch of my friends who are artillary are in 3rd brigade

im in 1st BCT (Bastogne Brigade), working with the 327 Infantry rightnow. Who were you with?

2 years? where did you get that from? Last time i checked it was you had to be an e-4 or e-5 eith 1 year experience and 2 years left active.

Its alright man, my first real medical situation the soldier had 2 GSW (Gun Shot Wounds) to the hip and foot and a shrapnel wound in the other leg which caused a femoral bleed. I was scared, but it all worked out. Put a tournakit on him, packed some kerlix in his wounds, put some ace wraps...

WHats up everyone, im a medic in the US Army. Im with the 101st Airborne Infantry Division rightnow, were in afghanistan rightnow. Jalalibad. I have an EMT-B cert like everyone else but i am not an emt in the traditional sense. DOnt always have BSI, the scene is really never safe etc.. etc...