FORT DETRICK, MD -- Makers of the Combat Application Tourniquet™ have updated the design of the widely used tourniquet. The update has resulted in two different versions of the tourniquet currently in ...
When there's blood loss occurring from an arm or a leg, the easiest way to stop it is by applying a tourniquet, which is this compression type of device that you place above the site of bleeding, and ...
In the first 13 years of this century 1,043 people were injured or killed in 160 active shooter events across the United States, generally involving a lone shooter and mass casualties. And the vast ...
The victim's legs were damaged, the officers said, so they went in with their tourniquets and put one on each. Last fall, the Urbana Police Department used federally forfeited drug funds to buy 60 ...
It’s a sad statement on the modern world that even civilians are at risk for severe traumatic injuries in the course of going about their lives. And if something unthinkable happens to you or someone ...
In 1994, Frank Butler was wheeled into an operating room for knee surgery on a torn meniscus — the result of running too hard with his sons at Fripp Island, South Carolina. A Navy SEAL and medical ...