Critics of improvised tourniquets say they are ineffective. Some claim, “if you’re planning to improvise, you’re planning to fail.” We disagree statement. Proper planning includes having a primary plan, in this instance a commercially available tourniquet, and an alternate plan: …
Kneeling on the casualty’s groin for distal hemorrhage control When I was in the Special Forces Medical Sergeants course a very long time ago, I was taught a stopgap measure for significant lower extremity / groin bleeding was to “drop …
Creatively free-thinking under stress is extremely difficult. Learn to see improvised techniques in your every day environment and they will occur to you when you need them. Construction Barrier A very lightweight construction barrier is used as an improvised litter …
Our first plan to manage massive extremity hemorrhage is to use a proven commercially available tourniquet. Barring that, create an improvised tourniquet using a cravat, or a strip of fabric, with a windlass for leverage. If no other tourniqueting materials …
Pelvic fractures occur in 8% of major trauma patients. IED induced injuries resulting in traumatic lower limb amputation are associated with a 22% rate of pelvic fracture; half of which are unstable ring fractures. Death from pelvic fracture largely occurs …
Recent news articles describe many cases of the public placing “tourniquets” without windlasses on injured individuals to stop bleeding. However, if you look a little deeper, most of those well-intentioned “tourniquet” applications weren’t actually tourniquets at all and may endanger …
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