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  2. Emergency tourniquet - Wikipedia

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    Improvised tourniquet on an accidentally severed finger Emergency tourniquets are cuff-like devices designed to stop severe traumatic bleeding before or during transport to a care facility. They are wrapped around the limb, proximal to the site of trauma , and tightened until all blood vessels underneath are occluded.

  3. Equipment of an American combat medic - Wikipedia

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    CAT, SOFT-T or improvised tourniquets. Tourniquets are used for the care under fire phase of tactical combat casualty care, to stop massive life-threatening hemorrhage. Noting that improvised tourniquets are seldom effective. Emergency Trauma Bandages, a newer version of the first aid pressure dressing.

  4. Emergency bleeding control - Wikipedia

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    Another method of achieving constriction of the supplying artery is a tourniquet - a band tied tightly around a limb to restrict blood flow. Tourniquets are routinely used to bring veins to the surface for cannulation, though their use in emergency medicine is more limited. Many armies carry a tourniquet as part of their personal first aid kit.

  5. Should 3rd graders learn how to use tourniquets for school ...

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    Texas mandates "battlefield trauma care" lessons in school where children learn how to apply tourniquets and chest seals in class.

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    NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Wednesday said the league is aware of a lawsuit that accuses musician Jay-Z of rape but said it is not impacting the NFL's partnership with the rap mogul's Roc ...

  7. Tourniquet - Wikipedia

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    Tourniquet being applied to an arm on a training dummy A combat tourniquet commonly used by combat medics (military environment) and EMS (civilian environment).. A tourniquet is a device that is used to apply pressure to a limb or extremity in order to create ischemia or stopping the flow of blood.

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    A man who is allegedly responsible for multiple assaults on transgender individuals within Atlanta, Georgia, has been arrested, police said. Michael Boykin, 28, was identified as a hate crime ...

  9. Battlefield medicine - Wikipedia

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    Tactical Combat Casualty Care courses must also train soldiers to remove tourniquets for the purposes of reassessing trauma after the patient and caregiver is no longer under enemy fire. [40] This is because the risks of iatrogenic ischemic injury of prolonged use of tourniquets outweigh the risks of increased blood loss.