ICD-10-CM Y36.23* Blown All The Way Up *War Operation Involving - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
ICD-10-CM Y36.23* Blown All The Way Up *War Operation Involving - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
ICD-10-CM Y36.23* Blown All The Way Up *War Operation Involving Explosion of Improvised Explosive Device Objectives Overview of Blast Injuries and Pathophysiology Kinematics of Blast Trauma Tactical Combat Casualty Care 2015
Objectives
- Overview of Blast Injuries and Pathophysiology
- Kinematics of Blast Trauma
- Tactical Combat Casualty Care – 2015 Updates
- Care Under Fire, Tactical Field Care, Tactical
Evacuation Care
- Hemorrhage Control, Airway and Ventilation, Fluid
Resuscitation, Medications
- Practical Applications
Objectives
- What we won’t be discussing
- Just and unjust wars
- Tactics, techniques and procedures used by
enemy and coalition forces
- Current United States foreign policy initiatives
- r politics influencing military and strategic
decisions
Disclosures
- No conflicts of interest
- No benefits from any of the products shown in
the slides
- All pictures and videos belong to the presenter
unless noted
- Please Ask Questions – Learn from the others
in the audience
Victim Operated Improvised Explosive Device
- Home Made Explosives
- HME
- Nitrate/Fuel Mixture
- Pressure Plate/Victim Operated
- Command Detonated
- Blast wave
- Primary injury
- Fragmentation
- Secondary injury
- Landing
- Secondary impact
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Blast Pathophysiology
- Primary Injury – Blast
wave – overpressure. A pushing force = blunt trauma
- Expanding gases moving
at very high speeds – 1500 mph
- Rapid increase in
pressure, 100 PSI in a matter of milliseconds
- Lower velocity = lower
pressure in non-weapons grade (HME)
- Blast Pathophysiology
- Secondary Injuries –
shrapnel and everything pushed by the blast wave
- Usually found as
penetrating trauma
- Cutting force
- Cavitation process into
body tissues – potential spaces fill with blood and debris
- Blast Pathophysiology
- Tertiary Injuries
- Blast wave moving victims
into objects
- Can be a mixture of blunt
and penetrating trauma
- Blast Pathophysiology
- Quarternary Injuries
- Everything else
- Burns
- Barotrauma
- Crush Injuries
IED Injuries
- Obvious
- Fractures
- Amputations
- Burns
- High index of suspicion
- Vascular injury
- Genital/Rectal trauma
- Pelvic trauma
- Abdominal trauma
- HEENT Injury
VOIED – Size Matters
- 5lbs – ipsilateral foot damage
- 10lbs – ipsilateral foot amputation &
contralateral foot damage
- 15lbs – ipsilateral AKA &
contralateral foot amputation
- 20lbs – bilateral AKA – possible
genital/pelvic trauma, ipsilateral arm
- 25lbs- proximal bilateral femur,
pelvis, bilateral arms, bowel
- 30lbs – quadruple amputations,
pelvic/abdominal, thoracic, facial trauma
- >40lbs - death
How Big Was That Bomb?
- Based on Photograph and Injury Pattern
- Audience Participation Encouraged, Coerced or
Extracted through threat of Force
How Big Was That Bomb?
- Ipsilateral tibia/fibula
fracture
- Contralateral foot
laceration
- 5lbs – ispilateral foot damage
- 10lbs – ipsilateral foot amputation &
contralateral foot damage
- 15lbs – ipsilateral AKA &
contralateral foot amputation
- 20lbs – bilateral AKA – possible
genital/pelvic trauma, ipsilateral arm
- 25lbs- proximal bilateral femur,
pelvis, bilateral arms, bowel
- 30lbs – quadruple amputations,
pelvic/abdominal, thoracic, facial trauma
- >40lbs - death
How Big Was That Bomb?
- Ipsilateral foot
amputation
- Contralateral foot
damage
- Minor* Genital Trauma
- 5lbs – ispilateral foot damage
- 10lbs – ipsilateral foot amputation &
contralateral foot damage
- 15lbs – ipsilateral AKA &
contralateral foot amputation
- 20lbs – bilateral AKA – possible
genital/pelvic trauma, ipsilateral arm
- 25lbs- proximal bilateral femur,
pelvis, bilateral arms, bowel
- 30lbs – quadruple amputations,
pelvic/abdominal, thoracic, facial trauma
- >40lbs - death
How Big Was That Bomb?
- Bilateral AKA
- Left Proximal Femur
amputation
- Massive Pelvic Injuries
- Special Consideration
- Geriatric Patient
- 45 Minute transport to
Role I aid station
- 5lbs – ispilateral foot damage
- 10lbs – ipsilateral foot amputation &
contralateral foot damage
- 15lbs – ipsilateral AKA &
contralateral foot amputation
- 20lbs – bilateral AKA – possible
genital/pelvic trauma, ipsilateral arm
- 25lbs- proximal bilateral femur,
pelvis, bilateral arms, bowel
- 30lbs – quadruple amputations,
pelvic/abdominal, thoracic, facial trauma
- >40lbs - death
How Big Was That Bomb?
- Ipsilateral AKA
- Contralateral BKA
- Pelvic Injuries
- Bilat Upper Extremity
Amputation
- Cranial/Facial Trauma
- Special Consideration
- Pediatric Patient
- Approx 25kg weight
- 5lbs – ispilateral foot damage
- 10lbs – ipsilateral foot amputation &
contralateral foot damage
- 15lbs – ipsilateral AKA &
contralateral foot amputation
- 20lbs – bilateral AKA – possible
genital/pelvic trauma, ipsilateral arm
- 25lbs- proximal bilateral femur,
pelvis, bilateral arms, bowel
- 30lbs – quadruple amputations,
pelvic/abdominal, thoracic, facial trauma
- >40lbs - death
Tactical Combat Casualty Care
- Care Under Fire
- Tactical Field Care
- Tactical Evacuation Care
Tactical Combat Casualty Care
- Care Under Fire
- Overwhelming, Direct,
Lethal fire to suppress and eliminate enemy threat
- Prevent further casualties
- Self Aid/Buddy Aid
- If casualty can remain
engaged, return fire
- Casualty and treatment
personnel should seek cover and concealment
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Tactical Combat Casualty Care
- Care Under Fire
- Defer Airway Management
- Extricate casualties from
burning vehicles and buildings
- Initial Tourniquet
placement: high and hasty
Tactical Combat Casualty Care
- Tactical Field Care
- HABCs
- More time to do more
- Goal should focus on
preventing further injury and evacuation
- Hemorrhage
- Direct tourniquet
placement
- Hemostatic Dressings
- Junctional Tourniquets
Tactical Combat Casualty Care
- Tactical Field Care
- HABCs
- Goal should focus on
preventing further injury and evacuation
- Airway Management
- Jaw maneuvers
- NPA
- Recovery Position
- Surgical Airway
- Endotracheal Intubation
- Supraglottic Airway
Tactical Combat Casualty Care
- Tactical Field Care
- HABCs
- Goal should focus on
preventing further injury and evacuation
- Breathing
- Chest wounds
– Chest seals
- Needle Chest
Decompression
Tactical Combat Casualty Care
- Tactical Field Care
- HABCs
- Goal should focus on
preventing further injury and evacuation
- Bleeding/Circulation
Tactical Combat Casualty Care
- Casualty Evacuation
Care
- Tactical Evacuation
- CASEVAC vs MEDEVAC
- Monitor and Reassess
previous interventions
- HABCs
- GCS
- Vital Signs
Tactical Combat Casualty Care
- Evacuation Care
- More Time to Do More
- Provide additional
medications
- Provide supplemental
- xygen
- Coordinate care at
receiving facility
Tactical Combat Casualty Care
- Casualty Evacuation
Care
- CASEVAC
- Non-Standard Platform
- MEDEVAC
- Vehicle designed to
provide medical care during transport
HABC
- H – Hemorrhage Control
- Casualty can bleed to death in under three minutes
with a triple amputation
- Compressible hemorrhage
- Tourniquets
- Junctional hemorrhage control
- Blood sweep for additional wounds
- Combat gauze and kerlix to occupy potential
spaces
Presence Patrol
- 1 Platoon US, 1 Company Afghan National
Army
- Movement to contact through Pro-Taliban
village along dried canal – wadi
- Valon low metal frequency mine detector
carried by 2 Soldiers at front of 30 man column
Helmet Camera
IED strike treatment
- Stay calm
- HABCs - Tourniquets, tourniquets, tourniquets
- Combat gauze, kerlix
- Casualty will be covered in dirt and may have to
have his mouth and eyes washed out - Airway
- Stump dressing
- Expose for additional wounds
- IV/IO access
- High index of suspicion for other life threatening
injuries
IED strike treatment
- Assessment
- Level of Consiousness
- Responsiveness
- Talking
- Shock
- Radial pulse ~ 80-90mmHg systolic
- Visible Wounds
- Expose for additional wounds
- High index of suspicion for other life threatening
injuries
Tourniquets
CAT – Combat Application Tourniquet SOF-TT – SOF Tactical Tourniquet
Junctional Hemorrhage
CRoC – Combat Ready Clamp AAT – Abdominal Aorta Tourniquet
HABC
- A – Airway
- Casualty may have dirt and debris in every
- rifice – rinse out mouth and nose
- Position of comfort – casualty will work to
protect their own airway – anatomic position usually is not the best
- Early definitive airway – if you think they need a
tube, then they need a tube
- Cricothyroidotomy vs Oropharyngeal airway
Definitive Airway
- Open the airway as your first option
- Adjunct Airway Devices
- OPA, NPA, Bite Block – Rinse out airway
- Suppraglottic airway - KING LT
- Endotracheal Intubation
- Surgical Airway
- Once you have the tube, you are committing
manpower to ventilate
Cricothyroidotomy
HABC
- B – Breathing
- Most combat casualties
do not require supplemental Oxygen
- Airway compromise
- Burn/Inhalation injuries
- TBI/Altered
consciousness
- High altitude environment
HABC
- Concern for tension
pneumothorax
- Penetrating trauma to
shoulder, neck, chest, back, abdomen
- Needle Chest
Decompression
- Use largest needle you
have
- 14 GA, 3.25in
needle/catheter
- Second intercostal space
- Midclavicular line
- Alternate site(s)
- 4th or 5th intercostal space
anterior axillary line
HABC
- B – Breathing
- Chest Thoracostomy
Tube for long transport times or need for repeat NCD treatments
HABC
- Fluid Resuscitation
- IV/IO Access
- Blood Products
- Tranexemic Acid
HABC
- C – Circulation/Bleeding
- Tourniquets – limb and junctional
- Frequent reassessment – goal is less than 6 hours
- f total tourniquet time
- May convert tourniquets to pressure dressings
– Not in shock – No amputation – Easy monitoring of wound
HABC
- Fluid Resuscitation
- Indicated for shock,
mental status change or lack of radial pulse
- IV/IO Access
- IV 18 GA or large
preferred
- IO – tibial, humeral head,
sternum
- Fluids of Choice
- Whole Blood
- Plasma, RBC, Platelets in
1:1:1 ratio
- Blood products alone
- Hetastarch Colloid
- Crystalloid
HABC
- Tranexamic Acid
- Antifibrinolytic Agent
- Binds to Plasmin and
Plasminogen
- Stops clot lysis
- More clots prevent more
blood loss
HABC
- Tranexamic Acid
- Must be given within 3
hours of injury
- 1 gram IV in 100cc of LR
- r NS
- May administer 2nd gram
after administration of colloid or crystalloid infusion
- Should be administered
to casualties with large transfusion requirement
- Shock
- Limb amputation
- Penetrating torso/neck
trauma
- Severe bleeding
TCCC Additional Considerations
- Blast Injuries in closed spaces
- House Borne IED
- Increased suspicion for baro-trauma
- Viscous injuries, pulmonary injuries,
- HEENT – globe trauma to eyes ruptured
tympanic membranes
TCCC Additional Considerations
- Prevention of
hypothermia
- Heated blankets
- Warmed fluids
- Dry clothing
- Sleeping bag, poncho
liners
- Eye/globe Trauma
- Rapid visual acuity
- Rigid shield
- Secure foreign bodies in
place
Pharmacology
- Analgesia
- Acetaminophen – 1gram PO
every 8 hours
- Meloxicam – 15mg PO daily
- Transmucosal fentanyl – 800ug
- Ketamine – 50mg IM, 20mg
IV/IO
- Disarm your casualty if using
narcotics – frequent monitoring required
- Naloxone needed if using
narcotics 0.4-2mg IV/IM
- Antiemetics
- Ondansetron 4-8mg
IV/IM/ODT every 8 hours
- Antibiotics
- Moxifloxacin 400mg PO
daily
- Ertapenem 1gram IV/IM
- nce daily
Blast Injury
- Practical Applications
- IEDs are becoming an effective weapon used in
domestic terrorist and mass casualty events
- Massive poly-trauma protocols can be useful in