Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results showed patients may have higher postoperative pain scores at day 1 when a tourniquet is used, with an ...

Tourniquet use has been consistently increasing in Los Angeles County since 2015 and is significantly associated with improved patient survival. Tourniquet use is safe and does not lead to increased ...

Although tourniquet use during surgery has its advantages, presenters at a meeting noted in some cases it may do more harm than good. “Why do we use a tourniquet? We use it because it works. It gives ...

DENVER — America’s doctors are recommending cops, firefighters and the general public be trained to use a highly effective and simple technique to stop bleeding caused by bullet wounds and other ...

There are some skills you hope you never need to use, but having them could be a matter of life and death: welcome to bleeding control. BleedingControl.org, an group begun by the American College of ...

An Army Reserve doctor and nationally recognized trauma surgeon is pressing for broader availability of tourniquets — in the pockets of every U.S. first responder and staged alongside portable ...

The tourniquet was once headed the way of bloodletting, to the medical junkyard. After World War II, the tourniquet -- around since the age of Alexander the Great -- was deemed more dangerous than ...

The FDA confirmed localized tourniquet shortages June 5 and recommended healthcare facilities ration supply, use alternative products and reuse sterilized devices. The product in shortage — ...

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. Space Force ...

Last week’s attack in Paris, which killed 129 people, is precisely the kind of tragedy advocates believe calls for the ready availability of tourniquets, for use when manual pressure isn’t enough to ...

As Pennsylvania state police Cpl. Seth Kelly lay sprawled on a berm off a highway Tuesday morning and bleeding profusely from bullet wounds, a decision he made earlier in his shift saved his life.