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 …
Massive hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable death from injuries.
How much blood loss is too much?
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 …
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 …
One of the best parts of the Special Operations Medical Association annual meeting is connecting with your peers and discussing issues we all deal with. One evening, while having a bar napkin discussion about prehospital blood product administration, a London …
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.
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 …