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7 August 2021, 16:37 #16LEO / MIL
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Don’t buy tourniquets off Amazon and above all get the training. Having a good med kit is great, but worthless if you don’t have the knowledge on how to use it.
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10 August 2021, 10:55 #17Don’t buy tourniquets off Amazon and above all get the training.
Fake CAT warnings...
https://www.rescue-essentials.com/re...-fake-cat-tqs/
https://medicalgearoutfitters.com/bl...at-tourniquets
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHbRW42-PB0
Having a good med kit is great, but worthless if you don’t have the knowledge on how to use it.
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11 August 2021, 14:47 #18
The CAT 7 tourniquet is a marvelously simple device, applied over 30,000 times in military point of injury scenarios alone (20k of that is the CRASH 2 study alone). Through 7 generations, much of the development has focused on helping the windlass rod stand up to a hyped-up, 19 year-old, 200 lb. Military athlete who is trying to save his friend's life. That development is exactly what the 5 for $25 Amazon tourniquets do not have, and when the time comes, that stick will snap like a twig, resulting in uncontrolled catastrophic hemorrhage when the un-prepared, would-be rescuer has a "WTF?!?" moment with their broken, ineffective, fake tourniquet. Sounds like a hell of a sales hook, but don't let that be you!
The following are approved by the US Military, and therefore are the best tourniquets for everyday life threatening hemorrhage as well:
TMT Tourniquet Combat Medical. ...
CAT Tourniquet Gen 7 by North American Rescue. ...
TX2 and TX3 RevMedX. ...
XT Tourniquet SAM Medical. ...
SOF Tourniquet Gen 4 Tactical Medical Solutions.
Note the absence of the RATS tourniquet. The military does not endorse it's use. Partially because it can potentially cause neuro-vascular injury, and partly because it can be fail-prone. Friends don't let friends...There's no "Team" in F**K YOU!
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11 August 2021, 18:00 #19
I think I've purchased all of my CAT6/7's from DSG Arms. I once bought off Amazon, but the font, packaging were all off. I promptly returned it.
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11 August 2021, 18:35 #20
Any feedback on the ratcheting tourniquet?
http://https://www.rescue-essentials.com/m2-ratcheting-medical-tourniquet/The best way to survive a violent encounter is to be the one inflicting the most violence.
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12 August 2021, 12:03 #21
While the RMT is a TCCC recommended device, it doesn't have the exposure of the CAT or SOF-T. I've only seen training reviews, field deployments seem rare. I've been goofing around with the SAM XT, but no field deployments with it.
ToCCC recommended list. https://learning-media.allogy.com/ap...bcce5/contents
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12 August 2021, 17:26 #22
Not trying to shill for them and I don’t get any $ nor am I affiliated in any way but North American rescue has been a medical equipment go-to for me:
https://www.narescue.com/
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12 August 2021, 18:06 #23
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13 August 2021, 08:39 #24
NAR and Chinook Medical are my go-to's.
There's no "Team" in F**K YOU!
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13 August 2021, 18:44 #25
I'll make another small plug for Dark Angel. Small company, veteran owned. Looks like they are running a 25% off sale.
https://darkangelmedical.com/tourniquets/
Not a full spectrum supplier like NAR and the focus more on trauma to include training. Wish they were coming back to WA soon.
No affiliation, just have been pleased with them and their products. I keep a HEDR kit in my truck: https://darkangelmedical.com/headrest-trauma-kit/
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14 August 2021, 08:20 #26
One tip: please take the plastic wrapper off of the tourniquet before adding it to your kit. The last thing you want as your vision turns gray is to be fiddlefking with that wrapper with bloody hands.
There's no "Team" in F**K YOU!
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14 August 2021, 09:35 #27
Another word of caution...the CAT tourniquet is not puppy proof. Apparently the ratchet is a great chew toy.
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14 August 2021, 19:40 #28