🕖 Reading Time, 1 minutes Carrying casualties is hard. Tools are designed to fit in your hands. Chairs can be used to carry a casualty easier and more efficiently. You might also like to check out the article on a …
🕖 Reading Time, 2 minutes 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. …
🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes The MARCH mnemonic is a superior model for evaluation of trauma patients compared to the traditional A, B, C model. The Airway, Breathing, Circulation model fails in root cause analysis: The ultimate goal of having …
Pelvic fractures occur in 8% of major trauma patients. You can improvise a pelvic binder. 🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes IED induced injuries resulting in traumatic lower limb amputation are associated with a 22% rate of pelvic fracture; half of …
Change in CAT tourniquets from 6th to 7th generation 🕖 Reading Time, 4 minutes In October 2015, the 6th generation Combat Application Tourniquet, or CAT, with its double-eyelet buckle was discontinued, in favor of the 7th generation CAT which has …
Ishikawa Sôsuke Sadatomo at the Battle of Shizu-ga-mine in 1583 🕖 Reading Time, 3 minutes Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1862) one of the last great masters of the Japanese ukiyo-e style of woodblock prints and painting. Although he depicted a broad range …