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The same week we learned about a School District in Florida who bought 800 cheap knock-off tourniquets, we also learned our daughter’s school initially purchased a tourniquet with no evidence to support it works. The school subsequently had to spend …
Cravats as Improvised Tourniquets As a Special Forces medic serving in the late eighties and nineties, an improvised tourniquet was our planned option, should the need for a tourniquet arise. At that time, commercially proven, off the shelf tourniquets did …
The more tightly and compressed you pack your gear, the easier it is to carry and store. Unfortunately, you need to uncompress it to use it. Tightly sealed and compressed gloves seem like an awesome idea until you see how …
…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…
STAT Medical devices is marketing a ‘new STAT tourniquet’ on social media, advertising it as a “mass casualty tourniquet.” After repeated questions from my law enforcement and fire colleagues about this device, I contacted STAT Medical on several occasions requesting …
Carrying people is hard work. Carrying them with a litter makes the task easier. Non-Rigid litters are lighter and easier to store than their rigid counterparts, but they are harder to use. The casualty will naturally bend in the middle …