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 ===== General Recommendations ===== ===== General Recommendations =====
-   * **Move to cover or, if none is available, concealment.** Worst-case, lay down to make yourself small. Try not to treat yourself or another in the open as you are vulnerable to incoming fire. If a casualty is in the open, do your best to drag them in to cover or concealment. Only use carrying as a last resort, as the animation to pick up a casualty is slow and leaves you vulnerable to incoming fire. Only carry when you have one or two other individuals nearby who can provide security for you. +{{:medical:med_aid_coverbetter.jpg?600px||}} 
-   * **Communicate with your team leader and other individuals around you.** If you or your buddy are significantly wounded, make sure you can get help treating the casualty or providing security. If your team leader can quickly summon the squad's medic, it may help save a casualty that would have otherwise died. + 
-   * **Maintain security.** If you and your buddy are wounded, the lesser-wounded of the two should hold security to ensure the buddy team's protective posture is never compromised. Alternate treating yourselves to avoid a situation where you are both bandaging and get walked up on (and possibly killed) by enemy personnel. +**Move to cover or, if none is available, concealment.** Worst-case, lay down to make yourself small. Try not to treat yourself or another in the open as you are vulnerable to incoming fire. If a casualty is in the open, do your best to drag them in to cover or concealment. Only use carrying as a last resort, as the animation to pick up a casualty is slow and leaves you vulnerable to incoming fire. Only carry when you have one or two other individuals nearby who can provide security for you. 
-   * **If you are bandaging a casualty at the same time as someone else, call out what action you're performing on what region.** For example, "bandaging head," "tourniqueting right arm," and so on. This avoids wasted time and resources addressing the same wound(s).+ 
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 +**Communicate with your team leader and other individuals around you.** If you or your buddy are significantly wounded, make sure you can get help treating the casualty or providing security. If your team leader can quickly summon the squad's medic, it may help save a casualty that would have otherwise died. 
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 +//From Lonely Island's YOLO. "Just take our advice and hide."// 
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 +**Maintain security.** If you and your buddy are wounded, the lesser-wounded of the two should hold security to ensure the buddy team's protective posture is never compromised. Alternate treating yourselves to avoid a situation where you are both bandaging and get walked up on (and possibly killed) by enemy personnel. 
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 +**If you are bandaging a casualty at the same time as someone else, call out what action you're performing on what region.** For example, "bandaging head," "tourniqueting right arm," and so on. This avoids wasted time and resources addressing the same wound(s).
  
 ===== Step 1: Assess Injuries ===== ===== Step 1: Assess Injuries =====
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 +//Note that the arm (less-saturated yellow) is slightly less-wounded than the chest (more-saturated yellow). The leg has already been bandaged.//
  
 **You need to know what you're dealing with before you start working.** You can use the paper doll as a rough guide. Wounded regions on the body are colored on a gradient between very pale yellow (lightly wounded) and a higher-saturation orange (heavily wounded). **You need to know what you're dealing with before you start working.** You can use the paper doll as a rough guide. Wounded regions on the body are colored on a gradient between very pale yellow (lightly wounded) and a higher-saturation orange (heavily wounded).
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 ===== Step 2: Stop Bleeding & Fix Fractures ===== ===== Step 2: Stop Bleeding & Fix Fractures =====
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 +//We have a pretty nasty set of leg wounds and a fracture. Once we bandage (or tourniquet) the wounds, we can splint the fracture.//
  
 Now that you know the wounds you are dealing with, you can address them. Limbs can be immediately addressed by using a tourniquet on them. Torso or head will need to be bandaged. **Make smart use of the resources at your disposal**: if you only have one tourniquet, use it on the most-wounded limb to address all of that bleeding at once. Remember: if you're treating someone else, you use their supplies first (default setting), so you potentially have access to an extra tourniquet and so on. Now that you know the wounds you are dealing with, you can address them. Limbs can be immediately addressed by using a tourniquet on them. Torso or head will need to be bandaged. **Make smart use of the resources at your disposal**: if you only have one tourniquet, use it on the most-wounded limb to address all of that bleeding at once. Remember: if you're treating someone else, you use their supplies first (default setting), so you potentially have access to an extra tourniquet and so on.
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 ===== Step 3: Treat Pain ===== ===== Step 3: Treat Pain =====
  
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 +//Since we've lost a large amount of blood (more than "lost a lot of blood"), we might choose to forego treating pain.//
  
 Pain doesn't generally kill, but bleeding does. Now that bleeding has been addressed, **you can make the decision whether or not to treat the pain**. Pain induces aim sway that can make fighting difficult, so it's generally desirable to treat it when possible. However, **the deciding factor is heart rate**. If your heart rate is too low, you risk **falling unconscious** by dosing yourself with morphine, because it lowers your heart rate as a side effect. Pain doesn't generally kill, but bleeding does. Now that bleeding has been addressed, **you can make the decision whether or not to treat the pain**. Pain induces aim sway that can make fighting difficult, so it's generally desirable to treat it when possible. However, **the deciding factor is heart rate**. If your heart rate is too low, you risk **falling unconscious** by dosing yourself with morphine, because it lowers your heart rate as a side effect.
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 ===== Step 4: Hold Security ===== ===== Step 4: Hold Security =====
  
-Once you're done treating yourself or the casualty, you should immediately return to a **protective posture**. Even if there are others in need of treatment, remember that **someone needs to be on security**. Unless another casualty is going to die because you don't help them, you should be on security since you've already spent some time treating yourself or another.+Once you're done treating yourself or the casualty, you should **immediately return to a protective posture**. Even if there are others in need of treatment, remember that **someone needs to be on security**. Unless another casualty is going to die because you don't help them, you should be on security since you've already spent some time treating yourself or another.
  
 All the usual things apply: prioritize cover over concealment, watch your spacing within your team, and maintain all-around three-dimensional defense. If you have a critical weapon system (the automatic rifle, the anti-tank launcher, a marksman rifle, etc) try to deploy that in a location that addresses the enemy's most likely or most dangerous course of action. If you need help deciding where to go, ask your team leader. However, it could be your team leader who is unconscious, so being able to make these determinations on your own (or with the aid of those around you) is a definite advantage. All the usual things apply: prioritize cover over concealment, watch your spacing within your team, and maintain all-around three-dimensional defense. If you have a critical weapon system (the automatic rifle, the anti-tank launcher, a marksman rifle, etc) try to deploy that in a location that addresses the enemy's most likely or most dangerous course of action. If you need help deciding where to go, ask your team leader. However, it could be your team leader who is unconscious, so being able to make these determinations on your own (or with the aid of those around you) is a definite advantage.
  
-The next time you're near a medic (or if a medic is summoned to your team), you should **get the medic to stitch your wounds** to prevent them from reopening and using up more bandages. You may not always have immediate access to a medic, so **be patient**. Furthermore, when the medic is around, **do not leave security to go sit on top of the medic**. Inevitably you will see a lot of people doing this. **That does not mean that you yourself should do this**. Either the medic will go around to everyone on security (without being asked) and address any issues or you can ask your team leader to specifically send the medic your way.+{{:medical:med_aid_secstitch.jpg?800px|}} 
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 +//This incredibly advanced medic, upon arrival to the team, immediately goes around the security perimeter to treat any wounded rather than making you go to them.// 
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 +The next time you're near a medic (or if a medic is summoned to your team), you should **get the medic to stitch your wounds** to prevent them from reopening and using up more bandages. You may not always have immediate access to a medic, so **be patient**. Furthermore, when the medic is around, **do not leave security to go sit on top of the medic**. Inevitably you will see a lot of people doing this. **That does not mean that you yourself should do this**. Either the medic will go around to everyone on security (without being asked) and address any issues or you can ask your team leader to specifically send the medic your way (or do this yourself if your team leader is incapacitated or otherwise unavailable).
  
-And that's all there is to it! Feel free to ask questions or discuss on the Discord in #arma3.+And that's [[https://teamonetactical.com/wiki/lib/exe/fetch.php?t=1591325542&w=362&h=184&tok=c5a829&media=medical:med_aid_all.png|all]] there is to it! Feel free to ask questions or discuss on the Discord in #arma3.
  
 ====== Appendix A: ACE Medical Menu Video ====== ====== Appendix A: ACE Medical Menu Video ======
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