Had a brief and entertaining Tactical Medicine lecture this morning. There are some significant differences in how you treat trauma victims in civilian life and on the battlefield. Definitely less to remember:
Civilian life:
A-Airway
B-Breathing
C-Circulation
D-Disability
E-Exposure
F-F.A.S.T. exam
Military:
R-Return Fire
T-Tourniquet
All kidding aside, there are actually pretty good statistics backing this methodology up gleaned from studies of the Vietnam war. Focusing on reversible causes of mortality with very limited time and resources - exanguination is far and away the leading treatable cause of mortality in the battlefield, with pneumothorax/hemothorax trailing a distant second.
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