(Reuters Health) - Children bleeding from severe traumas like gunshot wounds can be treated with adult-sized tourniquets, a small study suggests. Gun injuries are a leading cause of death among school ...

Name: Jeff Kirkham Patent No.: 9,168,044 Patent: Multi-Use Cleat: An easy-to-use tourniquet that stops blood flow with elasticity, like a rubber band wrapped repeatedly around a finger. I was Special ...

When you think of surgery, images of calm doctors working on anesthetized patients in pristine operating rooms come to mind. Combat medics face a different reality. They often ply their trade on dusty ...

First aid for a traumatic injury that’s causing massive, arterial blood loss? Easy, just apply a tourniquet. That solution works fine if you’re a soldier, police officer, or EMT and you already carry ...

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WASHINGTON—The White House is pushing to make tourniquets as commonplace as heart defibrillators in U.S. schools, stadiums, airports, malls and other public places ...

FORT DETRICK, Md. (March 1, 2016) -- The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency (USAMMA), a subordinate command within the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC), is fielding a new ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CBS Local)-- An 11-year-old girl who was shot in a drive-by shooting may have a police officer and his use of a tourniquet to thank for being alive. The victim was asleep in her ...

Writing about a police officer being shot on the job always has been difficult for me. My father was an officer and I have friends and acquaintances on many forces now. I can only imagine the ...

A plainclothes officer is alive thanks in part to the tourniquet, police said. — -- One of the tourniquets issued to Boston police officers after the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombing that ...

Medical Forces Command did not conduct a general inspection of the tourniquets provided to the Armed Forces, which was supposed to have been conducted by 14 August, said Solomiia Bobrovska, member of ...