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 …
Massive hemorrhage is the leading cause of preventable death from injuries.
How much blood loss is too much?
A friend I have known since junior high and I were recently discussing tourniquets and hemorrhage control. While not an unusual discussion topic among my friends, Robert Meyer Burnett does not work in EMS or emergency medicine. Nor is he …