Secondaries and back sweeps

One very important part of emergency field care is secondary assessments and back sweeps on initial assessments ( especially when dealing with blast injuries. As you will come to see in the video series, teaching the Iraqi special forces medics proper assessments was a very frustrating challenge. In this video you will see that a secondary assessment during a mass casualty saved a man alot of pain. Doing secondaries and full assessments can greatly increase survival rates