5 thoughts on “Bombs In Iraq”

1. Before my son, a Navy nurse, shipped out to Afghanistan in March, he went through some very intensive trama training at Camp Pendelton. He said it was the most intensive and best training he’d ever received and he was ACLS and ER certified. The instructors used very realistic casualty simulators and threw increasingly complex scenarios at the doctors and nurses getting ready to ship out. He suggests that the military should take this training on the road for dealing with mass casualty situations, especially multiple amputations and trama caused by explosions.

2. Just like the rocket technology from the Nazis.
   Just like knee rebuilds from the IRA kneecappings.
   Just like the genetics and medical breakthroughs from Mengele.

   It sucks if you’re one of the test bunnies, but sometimes there’s a silver lining on a more macro level, eh?

3. I had no idea the tourniquet had gone out of fashion? It was a basic part of first aid training when I was a boy scout (back when dinosaurs roamed the earth.)

   1. When I was in boy scouts the tourniquet was starting to go out of fashion. We were taught to use it as a last resort, when the other option was a risk of losing the patient, because when you used a tourniquet you risked losing a limb.

      1. Yes, I was taught the same thing by the Boy Scouts and by the Red Cross back around 1970. Apparently, the advice was changed from “last resort” to not using a tourniquet at all some years ago. Glad to see they’ve learned from harsh experience that a tourniquet beats letting someone bleed out for really severe wounds. My son mentioned that in his predeployment training, he learned that IEDs frequently cause multiple traumatic amputations (very often three limbs, sometimes all four). Someone will bleed out very quickly under those terrible circumstances.

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