🕖 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 …
We want people and organizations to understand what medical equipment they need, what they should purchase, and equally importantly, what to avoid.
- We don’t sell gear and don’t get kickbacks when students buy gear we believe is supported by the medical literature.
- We train people who want to help in emergencies, especially those in high-risk environments.
We want everyone to get the training and supplies they need to be Force Multipliers for Good and make our communities more resilient.
🕖 Reading/viewing Time, 6 minutes They may look like legitimate commercial versions but are not made to the same quality standard. Know your gear. In this excerpt from our online class learn about the problem – want more? Get the …
Don’t buy fake tourniquets: Use proven tourniquets, not toys. 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 their classrooms. Our student had …
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 …
In concept, any non-elastic material wrapped circumferentially around a limb and tightened should be able to generate enough pressure to occlude arterial flow and act as a tourniquet. Although there are numerous tourniquets on the market that aren’t counterfeit (a …