Buddy aid

Context

Medical Care is extremely important for personnel to receive in all circumstances, especially in conflicts and wars. Many branches and countries have different terminology for their practices, however, one of the most common terms is Buddy Aid.

US Armed Forces

Buddy Aid is a first-aid procedure for non-medical service members to help save other service personnel's lives. Medical personnel will instead use Enhanced First-Aid, which common personnel is not authorized to utilize. According to the US Defense Publication TC 4-02.1,[1] Buddy Aid is only basic first-aid medical practice along with responding to nerve agents. According to LTC Slattery, service members should be trained to deal with dressing wounds, mitigating hemorrhages via splints[2], adding splints to fractures, the movement, and care of injured personnel and maintaining the breathing of unresponsive troops. [3]

Iran

The Iranian Military implemented Buddy Aid in its forces around c.2001, the goal of this is to ensure quick and rapid medical care to downed service personnel. They originally tested personnel via a written test and a hands-on test, to ensure that service members were competent when it came to saving other troops' lives.[4]



Sources

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  1. "FIRST AID:TC 4-02.1" (PDF). armypubs. US Army. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  2. Wang, Xuren; Xia, Demeng; Zhou, Panyu; Gui, Li; Wang, Yixin (2021). "Comparing the performance of tourniquet application between self-aid and buddy-aid: In ordinary and simulated scenarios" (PDF). American Journal of Translational Research. 13 (6). Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  3. SLATTERY, LUCILE (July 1960). "Air Force Nurses Progress Toward the Space Age" (PDF). Military Medicine. 125 (7): 482. doi:10.1093/milmed/125.7.482. Retrieved 2 May 2022. {{cite journal}}: More than one of |pages= and |page= specified (help)
  4. Daneshmandi; Asgari; Tadrisi; Ebadi; Mokhtari (2011). "Effect of self-aid and buddy-aid education by lecture and multimedia software package methods on the knowledge level of military cadre" (PDF). Journal of Military Medicine. 13 (1): 7. Retrieved 2 May 2022. {{cite journal}}: More than one of |pages= and |page= specified (help)
  5. "TC 4-02.1" (PDF). armypubs-Army. US Army. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
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