For a CAT tourniquet to be effective, you have to get it extremely tight on that first pull before the windlass is activated, and many times people don't remember that in the stress of the moment.

Croushorn’s fanny pack-like tourniquet (which won a 2012 Popular Science invention award) received FDA approval in 2011 and saved its first two lives this summer.

Decide where to place the tourniquet. Choose a location between the injury and the heart so that it will slow down blood flow from the heart to the area of the wound. For a wound on your forearm ...

In an active shooter incident, should an LEO become wounded, and the situation calls for the application of a tourniquet, the tourniquet of the wounded officer would be used, reserving the use of ...

In many reported cases of neurologic complications caused by pneumatic tourniquet, the pressure was too high, or applied for too long. [2,3,5] A survey of 151 members of the Australian Orthopaedic ...