So now you have an idea on how to apply a tourniquet.
Will it work on a kid? Yes.

A photograph of a young girl wearing a 1-inch SOFT-T tourniquet. The tourniquet worked on the kid, as proven by doppler ultrasound.

Jacob Hall, 6 years old, died of a femoral artery laceration after being shot by a 14-year-old at recess at school. No one knew how to apply a tourniquet. Tourniquets do work on kids. 

Just recently, the first case report of a commercially available tourniquet being placed on a child was published. A 7-year-old sustained a femoral artery laceration when a piece of metal flew out of a running lawnmower. Although in shock by the time prehospital providers arrived, he survived after a commercial tourniquet was placed, before transport to the hospital. See more on the blog.

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I wanted the best available, most realistic and comprehensive training.

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I'm a high school teacher, and now I have a fairly new responsibility of bleeding control knowledge under "other duties as assigned."

I wanted the best available, most realistic and comprehensive training. After taking the course himself, as well as several others, my boyfriend decided this was the best course on the market for my additional responsibility at school. I have to agree; due to the training I received, I have successfully dealt with a 911 call, another lesser emergency, and have been able to identify and insist on the removal of 800 counterfeit tourniquets from our school classrooms.

Without the training from Crisis Medicine, I would not have been as prepared to confidently address these emergencies. I hope not to use these skills, but I know I can if my students and colleagues need.

Kim Walther - Florida Business Teacher and Sailboat Captain
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Improvised Pediatric Pant-leg Tourniquet

Our first plan is to use a proven commercially available tourniquet. Barring that, an improvised tourniquet. Given no other choices, you maybe able to use the casualty's clothing with a rigid windlass tomake a wearable improvised tourniquet. This is verified effective with dopplerultrasound.

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