There is an age-old debate in Tactical Medicine on what method is better for tourniquet placement: “High and Tight” or 2 to 3 inches above the wound. As a SWAT Medic and a NAEMT TCCC, TECC, PHTLS ...

With the size and frequency of mass shootings on the rise, a move is under way to make bleeding control kits as common in public places as fire extinguishers and heart defibrillators. The idea is to ...

All 300 members of the DART Police Department will soon be trained on how to properly use a tourniquet and stop a wound from bleeding. Training, led by staff at Baylor Scott & White Health, started ...

Extremity tourniquets have been on the market for several years. Unfortunately, as noted by numerous papers on extremity tourniquet failure, lives have been lost due to inappropriately applied ...

DANVERS, MASS. (WHDH) - A potentially lifesaving lesson was taught earlier this week as a local surgeon took to Danvers High School to show people the importance of tourniquets. “No one should die ...

Stop the Bleed instructor Joe Ogershok demonstrates how to apply a tourniquet during an event for National Stop the Bleed Day at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland, on May 19, 2022. (Photo courtesy ...

Pencils, pens, notebooks and … tourniquets? School district principals and administrators from West Hartford will return to school this week prepared to render aid if there is an active shooter or a ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Army Simulation and Training Technology Center participated with members of the Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation in the annual PEO STRI ...

With the help of Hans the manikin, students in the Stop the Bleed program learn how to apply tourniquets at Harborview Medical Center. In emergency situations, severe bleeding is a common cause of ...