With the increasing frequency of vehicles being used as weapons by violent extremists, and ISIS’s encouragement of it’s followers to rent SUV’s and trucks for this purpose, it is worth reviewing the trauma literature of pedestrians injured by automobiles. First, …
Recent news articles describe many cases of the public placing “tourniquets” without windlasses on injured individuals to stop bleeding. However, if you look a little deeper, most of those well-intentioned “tourniquet” applications weren’t actually tourniquets at all and may endanger …
The safety pin is a versatile and useful piece of equipment that has been around for over 150 years. Each military cravat comes with two and this video demonstrates ways…
A friend I have known since junior high and I were recently discussing tourniquets and hemorrhage control. While not an unusual discussion topic among my friends, Robert Meyer Burnett does not work in EMS or emergency medicine. Nor is he …