User:Sirdog/Advanced medical concepts

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This page is designed for a soldier playing on an Endurance Coalition controlled environment to assess whether their condition can be self-managed during a firefight or whether they need a medic. For information useful to medics specifically, see the medic sub-page.

The addon used to simulate medical conditions in a more realistic manner than vanilla Arma is strictly from ACE3. At this time, Endurance does not use the even more advanced KAT variant.

Core principle

The primary way you, as a soldier, can be an asset to your medic and your squad's health is to eliminate the enemy causing harm. The medic's first(-ish) priority is to tend to you and your teammates. Your first priority is fighting. The main goal for you is to assess whether your current condition is sufficient to keep fighting, or whether you will imminently die/go unconscious without a medic's assistance.

Self-assessment

When you've been harmed (usually this is by being shot), and there is a lull in the fight or enough people are putting shots down range, quickly open the medical menu using H and double check your name is at the top. If it isn't, click the circular icon to switch to yourself.

Once you are sure you are looking at your own condition, the list of priorities are:

  1. Are you currently bleeding? If so, how badly?
  2. Have you lost blood? If so, how much?
  3. Are you in pain? If so, is it hurting your combat effectiveness?

If you see any limb is not grey, and you see the bleeding indicator, quickly review all non-grey limbs. Any limb with a wound that is not an Abrasion, Contusion, or Bruise is likely causing bleeding. If such a limb only has those 3, it can be ignored for the time being. If possible, apply a tourniquet to the bleeding limb. If not possible (not enough tourniquets and/or it's the chest/head), apply sufficient bandages to get bleeding to stop. If you see a lot of a wound that isn't the aforementioned 3, and it isn't a limb you can tourniquet, you can safely call for a medic.

If you are:

  1. No longer bleeding; and
  2. Your blood loss indicator is yellow; and
  3. You otherwise feel fine.

Keep fighting. If you cannot get bleeding to stop (either at all or the number of wounds indicates it will take a long time), your blood loss indicator is orange or red, or your condition is causing you to otherwise be combat ineffective, call for a medic. Generally, if you are performing due diligence and doing your best, it is better for a medic to look at you and bitch at you (lovingly... usually) for wasting their time than it is for you to go down because you misjudged your wounds.

The only other thing to mention here is pain. You likely have morphine on your person. Morphine will eliminate pain, but it messes with your blood pressure and heart rate for a very long time. If you are not careful, you can overdose, or application in combination with your condition can cause a heart attack. Only use morphine without a medic's consultation if the level of pain you are experiencing is effecting your ability to adequately engage the enemy and you need to engage the enemy right now. If you simply notice you have pain during downtime, ask a medic to give application a thumb's up.

CPR

A medic may occasionally ask you to assist in performing CPR. This is because a medic performing CPR is not any more or less effective than a soldier. It is more efficient for a medic to bandage, since they can do so quickly with Elastic Bandages and then immediately stitch the wound. CPR is performed by clicking the chest, clicking Advanced Medical treatment, and clicking CPR. Continue doing CPR until instructed to stop (you'll have to keep using the menu to do it over and over).

If you notice the medic is busy and you have been doing it for awhile, you can check the individual's pulse. If there is none or it's weak, keep going. If it's strong, notify the medic, cease CPR, and return to the fight.

Footnotes

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