Jessica L Patterson, Robert T Bryan, Michael Turconi, Andrea Leiner, Timothy P Plackett, Lori L Rhodes, Luke Sciulli, Stephen Donnelly, Christopher W Reynolds, Joseph Leanza, Andrew D Fisher, Taras Kushnir, Valerii Artemenko, Kevin R Ward, John B Holcomb, Florian F Schmitzberger
The use of tourniquets for life-threatening limb hemorrhage is standard of care in military and civilian medicine. The United States (U.S.) Department of Defense (DoD) Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) guidelines, as part of the Joint Trauma System, support the application of tourniquets within a structured system reliant on highly trained medics and expeditious evacuation. Current practices by entities such as the DoD and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) are supported by evidence collected in counter-insurgency operations and other conflicts in which transport times to care rarely went beyond one hour, and casualty rates and tactical situations rarely exceeded capabilities...
March 6, 2024: Journal of Special Operations Medicine: a Peer Reviewed Journal for SOF Medical Professionals