Recently we posted a video outlining the challenges of using hemostatic granules as compared to gauze. In response, we were surprised by how many people advocated for tactical tampons to control massive hemorrhage in a gunshot wound. “Depending on the …
Although an IFAK is technically an Individual First Aid Kit, it really should more appropriately be thought of as an Individual Trauma Kit. First Aid kits and First Aid courses, as commonly thought of, deal with topics more akin to …
One thing you figure out quickly in Army Special Forces is that if you get a bigger rucksack, you will always find things to put in it: Whether those things need to be there or not. The same thing happens …
The same week we learned about a School District in Florida who bought 800 cheap knock-off tourniquets, we also learned our daughter’s school initially purchased a tourniquet with no evidence to support it works. The school subsequently had to spend …
Jacob Hall, 6 years old, died of a femoral artery laceration after being shot by a 14-year-old while he was at recess at his school. Another student and a teacher were wounded. “’The first-grader lost 75 percent of his blood …
Cravats as Improvised Tourniquets As a Special Forces medic serving in the late eighties and nineties, an improvised tourniquet was our planned option, should the need for a tourniquet arise. At that time, commercially proven, off the shelf tourniquets did …
Not a member yet? Register now
Are you a member? Login now