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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.

Mike Shertz

Battlefield Recovery

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories Equipment, More
February 16, 2023

🕖 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 …

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Mike Shertz

Counterfeit tourniquets are a serious problem

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Equipment
February 9, 2023

🕖 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 …

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Mike Shertz

School District Issues Counterfeit Tourniquets During National Stop the Bleed Month

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories Equipment
May 12, 2022

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 …

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A photo of a police officer's leg showing two, side-by-side CAT tourniquets properly applied to stop massive hemorrhage
Mike Shertz

Tourniquets: One may not be enough

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Equipment
September 10, 2021

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 …

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A photo of the burly chest of an operator with an American flag and CAT tourniquet staged on the exterior of his gear, center line
Mike Shertz

Tourniquet environmental wear: is time of the essence?

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Equipment
August 11, 2021

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 …

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A slide showing the differences between the CAT and Recon tourniquets
Mike Shertz

Recon Medical “Tourniquets” – Speculation Over Science

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Equipment
June 5, 2020

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 …

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