🕖 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 …
Massive hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable death from injuries.
How much blood loss is too much?
🕖 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 …
🕖 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …