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So a few weeks ago one of our trucks got hit by an EFP (explosively formed projectile) not going to go into detail but it's basically molten brass moving at extreme speeds. My junior medic was the one who was there not me personally. The EFP went through the drivers side door taking off the drivers left arm from the forearm down, the over pressure caused bilateral collapsed lungs and a few fx ribs causing flail chest. The TC or passenger had the left buttock taken off with pelvic fx, and possible femur fx. Both suffered third degree burns. The gunner was fine with the exception of second degree burns to bilat LE. Medevac bird is a 15-30minute wait so you have that long to treat with limited resources in your aid bag. provided the area was cleared and had 360 security what would you have done?
According to my junior medics report he triaged threw a tourniquet on the driver, then proceeded to work on the TC he packed the wound with kerlix the best he could used cravats to stabilize the pelvis and here's where he messed up ignored the femur fx. granted we have no traction splints here I feel he could've SAM splinted the femur and had a CLS keep manual traction until medevac arrived. We also have a product called "Combat Gauze" which has a clotting agent in it I believe he could've used that rather than kerlix. IMO i believe he did a fairly good job seeing as it was his first deployment and first major casualty.
According to my junior medics report he triaged threw a tourniquet on the driver, then proceeded to work on the TC he packed the wound with kerlix the best he could used cravats to stabilize the pelvis and here's where he messed up ignored the femur fx. granted we have no traction splints here I feel he could've SAM splinted the femur and had a CLS keep manual traction until medevac arrived. We also have a product called "Combat Gauze" which has a clotting agent in it I believe he could've used that rather than kerlix. IMO i believe he did a fairly good job seeing as it was his first deployment and first major casualty.