The Army has long known the importance of tourniquets in combat. Every medic is equipped with some type of tourniquet, or a cloth “cravat” bandage that can be used as an emergency substitute.

The first recorded combat use of a junctional tourniquet was in Afghanistan in 2014, when US and Afghan medics saved a young Afghan National Army soldier who had been shot by insurgents.

If you do not reassess a tourniquet (same as literally any other medical intervention.) then complications occur. Combat zone Tourniquets have been left on as long as 16 hours (Kragh, 2007.

The Department of Combat Medic Training trains 8,000 new medics a year, ... Now, all Soldiers are issued tourniquets when they deploy to combat, and medics carry several of them.

The fast-acting use of tourniquets by an Army combat medic and a Space Force guardian in off-duty emergencies earned them United Service Organization’s servicemember of the year awards.

Dr. Frank Butler, a retired Navy SEAL doctor, was honored at the White House for his contributions to modern combat casualty care, which include standardizing tourniquet use across the military.

While medical tourniquets are safer, research suggests improvised tourniquets are still a reasonable, helpful substitute when ...

Standard Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT) Currently, tourniquets on the market have failure rates as high as 84% . This became very real to me back in 2018, when I became aware of mass casualty ...

Former combat medic Carl Whalen's nonprofit helps smaller police ... The City of Bethel and the Village of Williamsburg received 12 trauma and bleed control kits that contain a tourniquet and ...