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To: FoxInSocks

P.S. The current trend is to move right to applying a tourniquet if direct pressure fails to control bleeding, skipping elevation and pressure points and ice. Makes the bleeding-control testing station simpler.

Many of the trauma treatment standards come from things the military is learning on the battlefield.


21 posted on 04/24/2012 10:35:40 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: FoxInSocks
Many of the trauma treatment standards come from things the military is learning on the battlefield.

Apply quik-clot, dress with a battle dressing, and transport. :-)

26 posted on 04/24/2012 10:47:01 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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