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Combat Gauze When You Can’t
Use a Tourniquet
“The 88.6% self-reported success rate in junctional
hemorrhage control is encouraging, as junctional hemorrhage is
increasingly looked at as the currently most common cause of
preventable death in the battlefield.”
Dr. Avi Shina et al
Journal of Trauma 2015 41
External Hemorrhage Control
Practice Guidelines
American College of Emergency Physicians
External Hemorrhage Control
Policy Statement
October 2014
Prehospital Emergency Care 2014
- The American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma
now endorses the use of both tourniquets and hemostatic
dressings
- So does the American College of Emergency Physicians
- So does the National Association of EMTs 45
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