Improvised TECC/TCCC by the Numbers
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It’s always better to have proven, dedicated medical equipment in an emergency. But when you don’t, you improvise.
Why use improvised materials at all? Eventually you could find yourself in a situation when you will not have the supplies that you would prefer to use to treat a casualty.
In an MCI, you could have depleted all of your equipment.
You may find yourself in a location that you do not have your usual gear. It might not be allowed.
Placing a tourniquet on a wounded casualty before they are in shock has a 20-fold greater survival than waiting for someone to arrive with commercial equipment and putting that on after they’re in shock.
There is literature showing 80% of combat fatalities died within 10-minutes of wounding: waiting for someone to arrive with the equipment you want to use may result in watching your casualty die.
Don’t just make something up, do something that might work.
