This 6-minute excerpt is from the Hemorrhage Control section in the Crisis Medicine Tactical Casualty Care (TC2) online course. How can you save casualties in active violent events?  Watch to find out. (Click photo for video)

The full course draws on real-world examples, to teach students what they can do in a high-risk, pre-hospital setting to control bleeding. A new understanding of and proper application of direct pressure is discussed, as well as a mnemonic for managing casualties. The full course covers bandaging, application of proven commercially available tourniquets, improvised tourniquets, simple wound packing with cotton gauze, and hemostatic agents.