20130918-Z-QM033-002: GEORGIA GARRISSON TRAINING CENTER, Fort Stewart, Ga.— As Charlie Medical Company prepares for Mass Casualty training event, Sgt. Carrie Ozbek,, medic, treats a real life patient. A soldier coming in with heat exhaustion, Ozbek and her assistant, Spc. Terrance Sterling, also a medic, gets right on treating her immediately. “We want to ensure we treat all our patients as soon as possible,” explains Ozbek. “With heat casualties, we loosen up all their clothing, this allows air to start moving around their body. Then we wrap them with an ice blanket, and check their vitals.”A
20130918-Z-QM033-002: GEORGIA GARRISSON TRAINING CENTER, Fort Stewart, Ga.— As Charlie Medical Company prepares for Mass Casualty training event, Sgt. Carrie Ozbek,, medic, treats a real life patient. A soldier coming in with heat exhaustion, Ozbek and her assistant, Spc. Terrance Sterling, also a medic, gets right on treating her immediately. “We want to ensure we treat all our patients as soon as possible,” explains Ozbek. “With heat casualties, we loosen up all their clothing, this allows air to start moving around their body. Then we wrap them with an ice blanket, and check their vitals.”After checking vitals, Ozbek starts prepping the casualties arm for an IV and Sterling preps the IV bag by shocking it. “We shock the bag before hooking the tube up to the IV to get all the air out of it,” explains Sterling. “We do not want to pump in an air bubble with the liquid, because then we would have a whole other situation to deal with.” 48th IBCT XCTC 130918-Z-QM033-633
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