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I liked the SWAT a lot after seeing it demonstrated at SOMA last year, but I lost a lot of my enthusiasm at SOFMSSC. The more dynamic and hectic the environment the more problems emerged with them staying on or sufficiently stopping bleeding. In the controlled environment there were no issues - on the lanes it was a different story. There were a few of them lying on the ground after our FTX that had fallen off patients during movement.
Perhaps some of this could be mitigated with more training, but I still think it is a less secure tourniquet when you have to drag or extract a casualty after application (which is the common situation for the combat medic).
On the positive side it is a super simple design that can serve a lot of other purposes in your aid bag.
FWIW
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