#StopTheBleed

By ketaminh Jul 27, 2018 / Leave a comment

Dr. Lenworth Jacobs walks you through how to apply a tourniquet on a bleeding victim: https://t.co/9ME7dURZhe #StopTheBleed @LenworthJacobs pic.twitter.com/8XZRj7mHMm — BleedingControl.org (@bleedingcontrol) July 25, 2018

Tourniquets are back

By ketaminh May 4, 2017 / Leave a comment

Largely due evidence from increased military use in conflicts in the last two decades, tourniquet use has re-emerged as an effective way to control haemorrhage from limb injury, usually due to partial or complete amputation or severe crush injury (so called “mangled limbs”) or severe penetrating trauma with major tissue or vascular disruption. Based on… Continue Reading

Prolonged prehospital tourniquet placement associated with severe complications: a case report

By ketaminh Jul 6, 2015 / Leave a comment

Here is the full report Prolonged prehospital tourniquet placement associated with severe complications: a case report Editor’s note: Yes… norepinephrine and crystalloid resuscitation for haemorrhagic shock..not ideal but remote medicine is like this at times! Its easy to blame prolonged tourniquet application for loss of leg but a severed femoral artery is also likely culprit… Continue Reading