🕖 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 …
🕖 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. 🕖 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 …
The safety pin is a versatile and useful piece of equipment that has been around for over 150 years. Each military cravat comes with two and this video demonstrates ways…
🕖 Reading Time, 9 minutes A friend I have known since junior high and I were recently discussing tourniquets and hemorrhage control. While not an unusual discussion topic among my friends, Robert Meyer Burnett does not work in EMS or …