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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.

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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
  • Comments 0 comment
September 10, 2021
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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
  • Comments 3 comments
August 11, 2021
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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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Mike Shertz

Recon Medical “Tourniquets” – Speculation Over Science

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Equipment
  • Comments 0 comment
June 5, 2020
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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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A photograph of a young girl wearing a 1-inch SOFT-T tourniquet. The tourniquet worked on the kid, as proven by doppler ultrasound.
Mike Shertz

Do commercially available tourniquets work on kids? UPDATED

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Equipment
  • Comments 4 comments
March 18, 2020
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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? …

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A black IFAK, marked in red, including a Crisis Medicine Samurai patch, with the approximate size showing
Mike Shertz

Planning your IFAK Packing List

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories Equipment
  • Comments 1 comment
January 15, 2020
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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 …

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A green bubble showing the view of a tourniquet application under NODS
Mike Shertz

What is the literature for managing casualties with night-vision (NODs)UPDATED

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories Equipment, More
  • Comments 1 comment
September 29, 2019
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Managing casualties in darkness is always challenging. Typical prehospital casualty evaluation is mainly done visually with some palpation. Blood is difficult to see in lowlight settings. This has led tactical medical providers to try various strategies to care for casualties …

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