CHICAGO (April 4, 2018): Civilian trauma medicine has adopted many methods and techniques that have been developed and tested on the battlefield. One such technique, the use of tourniquets to stanch ...

If you ever found yourself in an emergency where someone was bleeding uncontrollably, would you know what to do? Understanding when and how to use a tourniquet could mean the difference between life ...

Under House Bill 496, a Texas law that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, stop-the-bleed kits are required in public schools and teachers must have training. But there are useful tools inside each kit ...

Beside the sheer horrific nature and senselessness of the acts, the Sandy Hook shooting, the Boston Marathon bombing, the Orlando nightclub massacre share a critical commonality. In all of these cases ...

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 ...

Tourniquets are bands that you tie tightly around a bleeding wound on an arm or leg to apply pressure and slow down blood loss. Here are the steps for correctly applying one. You may need a tourniquet ...

Medical students learn the correct way to control blood flow with a tourniquet at a Stop the Bleed lecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Oct. 14, 2017.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) used his belt as a tourniquet to stop the bleeding of a staffer shot early Wednesday during a congressional baseball game practice, he told CNN shortly after the shooting.