We don't want first-responders to have to open up the patient to know if the patient is dead or just mostly dead, and moving the patient into an emergency medical vehicle may not be the best first move. This would be particularly true for field medics in combat situations.
Ideally, a portable/cheap capnograph would be one part of a 21st century first-aid scenario, while the other parts might include automatic defibrillators and freezing blankets.
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We don't want first-responders to have to open up the patient to know if the patient is dead or just mostly dead, and moving the patient into an emergency medical vehicle may not be the best first move. This would be particularly true for field medics in combat situations.
Ideally, a portable/cheap capnograph would be one part of a 21st century first-aid scenario, while the other parts might include automatic defibrillators and freezing blankets.