This 5-minute excerpt includes material from the Crisis Medicine Tactical Casualty Care Massive Hemorrhage blocks related to tourniquets and tourniquet skills in the online course. (Click photo for video)
The full TC2 hemorrhage control lectures discuss bandaging, tourniquets, wound packing with cotton gauze and hemostatic agents, including where the modern fear of tourniquets comes from, as well as modern testing techniques establishing efficacy.
This is complemented by a skill stations demonstrating the application of the three major DOD tourniquets self-applied and applied to a casualty to both arms and legs. Wound packing and hemostatic agents are also covered.
For all levels of medical providers, a very simple verbal hand-off report format is the MIST report used by the military. Although it may not convey all the detailed information regarding allergies and medications sometimes included in a more traditional EMS report, it gets to the salient details rapidly. See more in articles.
