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Finally, a fellow believer.
As per the 2004 update by Capt. Frank Butler for Tactical Combat Casualty Care being taught to all of the fine armed forces medic and other personnel, tourniquets are both appropriate and life saving. If anyone wants I can reproduce his lecture/slides....so it was written, so it shall be done (the application of a tourniquet that is)!!
I teach their use for civilian casualties in Tactical Emergency Medical Care as well as rural medicine transport care. They have a place and the myths need to be busted, IMHO.
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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