The AI-2 “aptechka” was an individual CBRN kit issued by the USSR for Civil Defense beginning in the late 1970s in a chemical, biological, radiological, or nuclear attack. Aptechka, (аптечка) loosely translated means first-aid kit. The Soviets prepositioned the kits …
Animal models are often used when trying to study the possible effects of a medication or treatment and subsequently extrapolated to humans. Which species is selected depends on what is being studied. 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes Guinea Pigs Nerve …
In 2017, the CDC issued an emergency use authorization for a new atropine auto-injector manufacturing company because there was a sense there were not enough atropine auto-injectors in the national stockpile. Atropine is the standard drug treatment for nerve agent …
If you are going to carry a tourniquet, we feel two is the minimum load-out carried on the body. The best data available indicates a 70% occlusion rate of a single tourniquet on a volunteer thigh. This successful occlusion can …
CAT Environmental Breakage We receive frequent questions about shelf-life and environmental degradation of tourniquets. There has been some discussion in the US Department of Defense about declaring a five-year self-life for new, unused commercial tourniquets in the inventory. Certainly, even …
When a casualty steps on a blast mine or is very close to an explosive charge, the explosive force travels up the leg/limb of the casualty stripping skin, fascia, and muscle off the bone. This is similar to “blunt dissecting” …