Basic Procedures

• Pulse
• Blood Pressure
• Respirations
• Insert a Foley catheter (female)

Surgical Procedures

• Apply a tourniquet
• Needle a tension pneumothorax
• Insert a chest tube
• Insert an NG tube
• Drain a cardiac tamponade
• Treat a sucking chest wound
• Peritoneal Lavage
• Clean a wound
• Debride a wound
• Ear wash
• Treat a burn
• Use a MAST suit
• Remove a tick

Foot Care

• Treat a blister
• Fix an ingrown toe nail
• Corns and Calluses

Eye Care

• Irrigate an eye
• Give Eye Drops
• Apply Eye Ointment

• IM Injection
• Subcutaneous Injection
• Give Morphine
• Draw blood
• Start a peripheral IV
• IV cutdown
• Blood Transfusion

Airway

• Maintain an airway
• Insert an Oral Airway
• Insert a Nasal Airway
• Bag and mask
• Intubation
• Cricothyroidotomy

Orthopedic Procedures

• Restore a dislocated shoulder
• Plaster cast a forearm fracture
• Apply a short arm, long arm, or short leg plaster cast
• Tap a knee
• Spinal Immobilization

Anesthesia

• Introduction
• Pharmacology
• Dose Calculation
• Preparation of the Patient
• Intubation
• Induction
• Maintenance
• Recovery
• Regional Blocks
• Local Anesthesia
• Digital Nerve Block
• Spinal Anesthesia
• Ketamine
• IV Sedation and Analgesia

Obstetrics & Gynecology

• Freeze a Wart
• Deliver a baby
• Feed a baby
• Treat postpartum hemorrhage
• Remove an IUD
• Drain a Bartholin cyst

Medical Therapy

• Anaphylaxis
• Asthma
• Hypothermia
• CPR

Dental Procedures

Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Department of the Navy
2300 E Street NW
Washington, D.C
20372-5300

Operational Medicine
 Health Care in Military Settings
CAPT Michael John Hughey, MC, USNR
NAVMED P-5139
  January 1, 2001