🕖 Reading Time, 1 minutes It’s challenging to creatively free think under stress. Plan on using chairs to evacuate casualties. With rolling chairs, you can really move out. See more improvised techniques in our articles archive.
It’s always better to have proven, dedicated medical equipment in an emergency. Our primary plan is always to use a commercially available tourniquet with medical evidence it works, supported by human studies. However, at some point in your life, you will …
🕖 Reading Time, 1 minutes Carrying casualties is hard. Tools are designed to fit in your hands. Chairs can be used to carry a casualty easier and more efficiently. You might also like to check out the article on a …
🕖 Reading Time, 2 minutes Our first plan to manage massive extremity hemorrhage is to use a proven commercially available tourniquet. Barring that, create an improvised tourniquet using a cravat, or a strip of fabric, with a windlass for leverage. …
The MARCH mnemonic is a superior model for evaluation of trauma patients compared to the traditional A, B, C model. 🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes The Airway, Breathing, Circulation model fails in root cause analysis: The ultimate goal of having …
Change in CAT tourniquets from 6th to 7th generation 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes In October 2015, the 6th generation Combat Application Tourniquet, or CAT, with its double-eyelet buckle was discontinued, in favor of the 7th generation CAT which has …