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UPDATE 2024: Since our original STAT “tourniquet” experience showing it was an ineffective device for hemorrhage control, there have been two peer-reviewed, published studies finding similar results. 🕖 Reading Time, 6 minutes Most recently, 84 volunteers with no prior tourniquet …
…many different ways to manage these wounds, this is one technique using a Foley Catheter (designed for urine drainage) to tamponade bleeding. It is best studied in neck wounds. This…
🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes The primary historic mission of US Army Special Forces is Unconventional Warfare. A 12-person Special Forces team infiltrates into an occupied nation at war to raise and train a guerrilla army to fight for the …
They may look like legitimate commercial versions but counterfeits are not made to the same quality standard. Know your gear. Researched and written by Mike Shertz, MD/18D, not AI 🕖 Reading/viewing Time, 7 minutes UPDATE: Fifty counterfeit CAT like tourniquets …
🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes There is a long-held belief among military medics that casualties who self-apply their own tourniquets typically put them on looser than they would on someone else. This led to a standard SF medic technique of …
Don’t buy fake tourniquets: Use proven tourniquets, not toys. 🕖 Reading Time, 6 minutes A student of our online Tactical Casualty Care course contacted us to tell us their county health department planned to issue teachers bleeding control kits for …