Tactical Paramedic – C Exam 2025
Questions and Answers
3 preventable causes of combat death - ANSWER✔✔-1. Extremity Hemorrhage 60%
2. Tension Pneumo 33%
3. Airway Compromise 6%
Care Under Fire (CUF) - ANSWER✔✔-Hot Zone
Direct Threat Care (DTC)
Priorities of CUF - ANSWER✔✔-Return Fire and take cover
Prevent additional casualties
Stop major bleeding w/ tourniquet
Treatments in CUF - ANSWER✔✔-Move and cover
Remove from burning vehicles
Tourniquets
Tactical Field Care (TFC) - ANSWER✔✔-Warm Zone
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,Indirect Threat Care (ITC)
Treatments in TFC - ANSWER✔✔-M.A.R.C.H./H
IV/IO
Antibiotics (ABX)
Pain meds
Hypothermia prevention
When do you open Tactical Medical Operator Bag? - ANSWER✔✔-TFC Tactical Field care phase,
not before
Tactical Evacuation Care - ANSWER✔✔-Cold Zone
Evac
Treatments in TEC - ANSWER✔✔-M.A.R.C.H./H
IV/IO
Antibiotics (ABX)
Pain meds
Hypothermia prevention
MEDEVAC - ANSWER✔✔-Medical Evacuation
CASEVAC - ANSWER✔✔-Casualty Evacuation
TCCC Non-permissive Situation - ANSWER✔✔-CUF/DTC
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,TCCC Semi-permissive Situation - ANSWER✔✔-TCF/IDC
TCCC Semi-permissive or permissive Situation - ANSWER✔✔-TACEVAC/EVAC
When to perform detailed assessment of patient - ANSWER✔✔-TFC
If team member is hurt? - ANSWER✔✔-Step over and complete the mission
Importance of patient care documentation - ANSWER✔✔-Ensure patient continuity, especially
with pain meds, and antibiotics.
MIST Report - ANSWER✔✔-M = Mechanism of injury
I = Injury
S = Signs and symptoms
T = Treatments
.Define MIST Report - ANSWER✔✔-Designed to transmit pertinent medical info from point of
injury to the evacuation asset
MIST vs 9-line MEDEVAC - ANSWER✔✔-MIST- focuses on communication of pt condition.
9 line - is request for evacuation of the patient
Improvised Explosive Devices - ANSWER✔✔-1. Command Detonated IED
2. House Borne IED (HBIED)
3. Vehicle Borne IED (VBIED)
4. Suicide Vest
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, Remote activation when person is in kill zone - ANSWER✔✔-Command Detonated IED
Rigged in a structure to explode when friendly forces arrive - ANSWER✔✔-House Borne IED
(HBIED)
IED carried by a vehicle - ANSWER✔✔-Vehicle Borne IED (VBIED)
Suicide Vest IED injuires - ANSWER✔✔-Blast, shrapnel, frag of bone and teeth.
Blast Classifications - ANSWER✔✔-1. Conventional Blast
2. Vehicle or Enclosed Space Blast
3. High-Order Explosives
4. Low-Order Explosives
Conventional Blast - ANSWER✔✔-Blunt Trauma
Penetrating Trauma
Inhalation Burns
Thermal Burns
Vehicle & Enclosed Space Blast - ANSWER✔✔-1. Pressure related effects more prominent than
blunt .
2. Closed space enhances the blast effects
3. Increased mortality rate
High-Order Explosives - ANSWER✔✔-1. Super sonic over pressurization shock wave
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Questions and Answers
3 preventable causes of combat death - ANSWER✔✔-1. Extremity Hemorrhage 60%
2. Tension Pneumo 33%
3. Airway Compromise 6%
Care Under Fire (CUF) - ANSWER✔✔-Hot Zone
Direct Threat Care (DTC)
Priorities of CUF - ANSWER✔✔-Return Fire and take cover
Prevent additional casualties
Stop major bleeding w/ tourniquet
Treatments in CUF - ANSWER✔✔-Move and cover
Remove from burning vehicles
Tourniquets
Tactical Field Care (TFC) - ANSWER✔✔-Warm Zone
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,Indirect Threat Care (ITC)
Treatments in TFC - ANSWER✔✔-M.A.R.C.H./H
IV/IO
Antibiotics (ABX)
Pain meds
Hypothermia prevention
When do you open Tactical Medical Operator Bag? - ANSWER✔✔-TFC Tactical Field care phase,
not before
Tactical Evacuation Care - ANSWER✔✔-Cold Zone
Evac
Treatments in TEC - ANSWER✔✔-M.A.R.C.H./H
IV/IO
Antibiotics (ABX)
Pain meds
Hypothermia prevention
MEDEVAC - ANSWER✔✔-Medical Evacuation
CASEVAC - ANSWER✔✔-Casualty Evacuation
TCCC Non-permissive Situation - ANSWER✔✔-CUF/DTC
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,TCCC Semi-permissive Situation - ANSWER✔✔-TCF/IDC
TCCC Semi-permissive or permissive Situation - ANSWER✔✔-TACEVAC/EVAC
When to perform detailed assessment of patient - ANSWER✔✔-TFC
If team member is hurt? - ANSWER✔✔-Step over and complete the mission
Importance of patient care documentation - ANSWER✔✔-Ensure patient continuity, especially
with pain meds, and antibiotics.
MIST Report - ANSWER✔✔-M = Mechanism of injury
I = Injury
S = Signs and symptoms
T = Treatments
.Define MIST Report - ANSWER✔✔-Designed to transmit pertinent medical info from point of
injury to the evacuation asset
MIST vs 9-line MEDEVAC - ANSWER✔✔-MIST- focuses on communication of pt condition.
9 line - is request for evacuation of the patient
Improvised Explosive Devices - ANSWER✔✔-1. Command Detonated IED
2. House Borne IED (HBIED)
3. Vehicle Borne IED (VBIED)
4. Suicide Vest
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, Remote activation when person is in kill zone - ANSWER✔✔-Command Detonated IED
Rigged in a structure to explode when friendly forces arrive - ANSWER✔✔-House Borne IED
(HBIED)
IED carried by a vehicle - ANSWER✔✔-Vehicle Borne IED (VBIED)
Suicide Vest IED injuires - ANSWER✔✔-Blast, shrapnel, frag of bone and teeth.
Blast Classifications - ANSWER✔✔-1. Conventional Blast
2. Vehicle or Enclosed Space Blast
3. High-Order Explosives
4. Low-Order Explosives
Conventional Blast - ANSWER✔✔-Blunt Trauma
Penetrating Trauma
Inhalation Burns
Thermal Burns
Vehicle & Enclosed Space Blast - ANSWER✔✔-1. Pressure related effects more prominent than
blunt .
2. Closed space enhances the blast effects
3. Increased mortality rate
High-Order Explosives - ANSWER✔✔-1. Super sonic over pressurization shock wave
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