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Are the CATs breaking in training or real world use? I cant find any documented cases where CATs have broken during real world use. During training its more common since the CATs is single use.
A good article to read is:
Practical Use of Emergency Tourniquets to Stop Bleeding in
Major Limb Trauma, J Trauma. 2008;64:S38 –S50.
From the article:
"The most effective tourniquets were the Emergency Medical Tourniquet (92%) and the Combat Application Tourniquet (79%)."
SG note: The SOFT was 66% effective in this study
"Improvised tourniquets were ineffective 67% of the time (10 of 15 limbs, 15 patients, 16 tourniquets) with 10 morbidities (6 amputation injuries, 3
fasciotomies, 1 palsy), and seven limbs continued to bleed."
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