FORT DETRICK, MD -- Makers of the Combat Application Tourniquet™ have updated the design of the widely used tourniquet.The update has resulted in two different versions of the tourniquet ...

The first recorded combat use of a junctional tourniquet was in Afghanistan in 2014, when US and Afghan medics saved a young Afghan National Army soldier who had been shot by insurgents.

There is an age-old debate in Tactical Medicine on what method is better for tourniquet placement: “High and Tight” or 2 to 3 inches above the wound. As a SWAT Medic and a NAEMT TCCC, TECC ...

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.

By 2008, tourniquets were issued as basic combat gear to virtually every American service member. Some Army uniforms even had them built-in. Butler’s focus on tourniquets in the military even ...

Medical professionals use this type of tourniquet, which is commercially produced for use in surgical procedures or professional first aid kits. Devices like the Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT ...