in first-aid kits, training teachers and sometimes students.
If anything, tourniquets should be used more often, said Murray J. Cohen, a trauma surgeon at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. One of theCohen wants to see tourniquets become as common as defibrillators — the electric devices used to revive someone in cardiac arrest — if not more so, since tourniquets can cost less than $30.
More than 40 attendees, aged 12 to 18, were given kits with tourniquets, gauze, and clotting agents, and taught to use them, said Stith, the organization’s regional director of social action.‘Save my leg!’ Yet minutes later, when Friel arrived at Jefferson’s emergency entrance in the back of a police cruiser, his leg felt numb.
Lmao, what? I have a tourniquet in both my car med kit and my range med kit. Medical relic my ass. Slow news day I guess.
Did St. Larry Krasner get the guy who shot Friel a nice light sentence?
Describing it as a 'relic from the earliest days of medicine' is a very irresponsible phrasing of this headline. This is an extremely important, effective, and life-saving device. Examples like the CAT are modern, well-tested, effective, and safe to use for the intended purpose.