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

How much blood loss is too much?

In this instance, we cut around the edges of the pillowcase in a U-shape to get enough fabric to make a tourniquet.
Mike Shertz

Improvised Part 6: Pillow Case U v2

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Improvised
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August 10, 2018
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It’s very hard to free think in stressful situations. The more you get used to looking around in your environment for items you can co-opt to use in an emergency, the quicker you will be able to improvise if you …

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A magazine is rolled up to form a rigid bar or plate which is then tied over the wound packing for the bandage.
Mike Shertz

Improvised Part 7: Wound packing bandage magazine

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Improvised
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August 9, 2018
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It’s very hard to free think in stressful situations. The more you get used to looking around in your environment for items you can co-opt to use in an emergency, the quicker you will be able to improvise if you …

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Mike Shertz

Effective Clamshell Direct Pressure.

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Improvised
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June 6, 2018
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In our race to use tourniquets for controlling hemorrhage, we often lose sight of the value of good direct pressure as a hemorrhage control technique. Proven commercially available tourniquets are almost always going to be better options for controlling significant …

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A bar napkin, sitting next to a beer, listing the hateful eight signs to look for before administering prehospital blood in a trauma patient
Mike Shertz

Prehospital Blood Administration and the Hateful Eight

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage
May 18, 2018
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One of the best parts of the Special Operations Medical Association annual meeting (this year in Charlotte, North Carolina) is connecting with your peers and discussing issues we all deal with. One evening, while having a bar napkin discussion about …

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Mike Shertz

Clamshell pressure to stop arterial flow.

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  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, More
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April 6, 2018
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You can eliminate arterial flow in nearly any limb you can get your fingers and hands wrapped around. This demonstration is from teaching the technique in our Advanced Tactical Casualty Care course, you can see the same great course online.

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A collage of photos showing Mike's technique for creating an improvised tourniquet from the casualty's own pants: cut up each leg strips 2-4" wide that include the seam (for strength), wrap the upper thigh, and use a windlass to tighten the tourniquet.
Mike Shertz

Improvised Pant-leg Tourniquets

  • Posted by Mike Shertz
  • Categories (M) Massive Hemorrhage, Improvised
January 29, 2018
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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 …

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