This thread is meant to act as a guide to emergency medicine. Specifically, trauma, and combat medicine. I hope you NEVER need to use it but want you to be prepared if you do.

1: Triage. These are for MASS CASUALTY INCIDENTS. Not for one-offs. This is very dumbed down for non-medical providers.

Green: "If you can hear my voice, walk to me." People with minor injuries, who are ambulatory, and oriented. A flesh wound, or a cracked rib, or something minor. Not life threatening, can wait hours to get to a hospital.

Red: Immediate threat to life. Arterial wound. Sucking chest wound. If they don't get IMMEDIATE treatment, they will die. Application of a tourniquet to an arterial wound- if it stops the bleed entirely, they go from a red to a green (assuming they are alert, oriented, and able to follow commands).

Black: Dead or dying. Cardiac arrest or obvious death. No pulse, no breaths. Agonal breathing. The exception to this rule is children- give them two rescue breaths and if they don't change condition, they remain black.

2. First aid supplies: Nitrile gloves. Several pairs. Permanent marker, for tourniquet, if possible. Medical tape. Trauma shears.

CAT Tourniquet. Order 3. 1 for you, 2 for them. Application: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LjKKyMp0SE HIGH AND TIGHT. Keep the tourniquet as close to the trunk of the body as possible, without going over a joint. Tourniquets are only for MAJOR BLEEDS that do not clot on their own.

Chest Seal/Occlusive: For sucking chest wounds, and trunk wounds. Always check for an exit wound. Order 2. One for you, one for your victim. Application: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm5T7xCMe8k

Israeli Bandage: Order 3. Same as above. Good for neck wounds (wrap around body to prevent suffocation). Also good for limb wounds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LjKKyMp0SE

Quick-clot gauze: Good for wound packing. I tend to leave it behind in favor of a tourniquet or Israeli, but this is up to you. A ripped cotton tee-shirt also makes great wound packing material. ONLY PACK LIMBS. DO NOT USE THINGS THAT WILL FALL APART, LIKE PAPER TOWEL. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FbMpMdEqRs

Unless you're medically trained and licensed, do not administer medicines, do not perform things you see on TV. No chest needle decompressions, no stitches, no field surgeries. No IVs, no IOs.

Don't just tabletop this. Practice. Get comfortable with what all of these mean and how they work. There is about a BILLION things I could teach you here, but this is not meant to replace a stop the bleed class.