Background on our online Tactical Casualty Care courses đź•– Reading Time, 4 minutes For years students have asked about the feasibility of teaching the tactical first aid, or Tactical Casualty Care courses, outside of the Pacific Northwest. Unfortunately, to put …
Knowing the quantity of blood loss helps estimate the likelihood of shock đź•– Reading Time, 5 minutes Having a sense of how much blood a trauma patient “spilled” on the ground can be very helpful for understanding and estimating the …
đź•– Reading Time, 3 minutes Once a casualty’s massive hemorrhage is controlled, rescuers must turn our attention to the rest of the M-A-R-C-H pneumonic, specifically, to hypothermia prevention. Does the casualty have an open airway, or do they need help …
đź•– Reading Time, 3 minutes In our race to use tourniquets for controlling hemorrhage, we often lose sight of the value of good direct pressure as a hemorrhage control technique. Proven commercially available tourniquets are almost always going to be …
đź•– Reading Time, 1 minutes An OPS Core Helmet or Cairns Fire Helmet used to stop junctional hemorrhage with two CAT tourniquets. Proof of concept of a junctional hemorrhage tourniquet idea first suggested by Full Spectrum Training, now proven with …
It is not a tourniquet if if does not have a windlass. đź•– Reading Time, 7 minutes Recent news articles describe many cases of the public placing “tourniquets” without windlasses on injured individuals to stop bleeding. However, if you look …