Good set of threads, though as I read them we have a few unanswered cases floating around.
Didn't check dates, so I don't know how old they are (and don't care)/
Unsolved one: Infectious diarrhea concerns. Question of when it IS NOT safe for loperamide. Basic answer, with minimal lab support, is if the troop has fever, signs of paralysis, of blood in the stoool. With a little bitty field "microscope" in an austere medics 'tool kit (you know the one, oto-ophthalmosope-fischer scientific tube mircoscope) you can looke for WBC's as well. Actually, that is the only time antibiotics are indicated for diarrhea, besides C-DIFFICILE , which is an infectious diarrhea typically resulting from antibiotics.
Unsolved two: Zone two injury. I see no concern about AIR EMBOLISM voiced (Zone 1 and 3 are at the root of the nek and base of skull, you figure out which is which. Don't forget about MAJOR DEEP aortic, svc, or lung invlovement with a blade in zone 1.
Doc Pacer
Didn't check dates, so I don't know how old they are (and don't care)/
Unsolved one: Infectious diarrhea concerns. Question of when it IS NOT safe for loperamide. Basic answer, with minimal lab support, is if the troop has fever, signs of paralysis, of blood in the stoool. With a little bitty field "microscope" in an austere medics 'tool kit (you know the one, oto-ophthalmosope-fischer scientific tube mircoscope) you can looke for WBC's as well. Actually, that is the only time antibiotics are indicated for diarrhea, besides C-DIFFICILE , which is an infectious diarrhea typically resulting from antibiotics.
Unsolved two: Zone two injury. I see no concern about AIR EMBOLISM voiced (Zone 1 and 3 are at the root of the nek and base of skull, you figure out which is which. Don't forget about MAJOR DEEP aortic, svc, or lung invlovement with a blade in zone 1.
Doc Pacer