2 MUST HAVE Items for Bleeding Control
Spring is here and May is Stop the Bleed month! This is the month nationally designated for spreading awareness of bleeding control. Few people realize how simple it can […]
Tag: Bleeding Control
A Look At the SOF-Tourniquet.
Tourniquets are something that I am very familiar with in both my military and civilian careers, and I’ve had the benefit of using many different kinds over the years. The […]
Combat Gauze Vs. QuikClot
One of the things I say with regularity is how important it is to learn wound packing. But if you haven’t heard, here’s why: Wound packing is an essential skill […]
4 Styles of Pressure Dressings Explained
Tourniquets enjoy too much of the spotlight. With all the glorious combat saves a good TQ has, the hardworking pressure dressing gets forgotten in civilian emergency preparedness. Yes, of course […]
New and Improved CAT Clone? The Recon Medical TQ Review
I’ve never thought more about tourniquets then I have in this job. Bleeding control being such an important topic of discussion means devoting a good amount of time to all […]
The BEST Way Stop Bleeding W/o a Tourniquet
We can’t be prepared all the time. Even if you’re the kind of person who has every pocket full of life saving materials, you still need to shower at some […]
Why Improvised Tourniquets Don’t Work (But Why You Should Still Learn How)
A good medic takes pride in being able to make do with less. Emergency medicine almost never happens in a place when you have every resource at your disposal. Unless […]