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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 …
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. Would a tourniquet have worked to save him? …
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 …