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Massive hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable death from injuries.

How much blood loss is too much?

Mike Shertz

Brazilian Bank Robbery: Lethality of penetrating neck wounds

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, More
February 25, 2023

🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes This video of an attempted bank robbery in Brazil shows that some injuries are just too rapidly fatal to intervene on. Based on Vietnam data, fatal penetrating neck wounds result from about 1/3 transection of …

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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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An Australia poster encouraging inguinal compression be performed halfway between the hips and bits
Mike Shertz

What the evidence really shows… Debunking the myth of “dropping a knee;” verb choice matters.

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Improvised, More
November 7, 2022

🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes Manual inguinal compression of the vasculature can work to occlude distal arterial blood flow. It may not constantly occlude during the entire time the rescuer is applying pressure and might require “readjustment” of the rescuer’s …

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Mike Shertz

Mayhem in the Nutcracker Suite

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, More
December 12, 2021

Marie and her family enjoy the traditional Christmas evening gathering including dancing and a visit from Herr Drosselmeyer. Marie and her brother receive extravagant gifts, Marie’s is an exquisitely crafted nutcracker. Suddenly, there is a sound to the south of …

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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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