(Reuters Health) - Children bleeding from severe traumas like gunshot wounds can be treated with adult-sized tourniquets, a small study suggests. Gun injuries are a leading cause of death among school ...

For a CAT tourniquet to be effective, you have to get it extremely tight on that first pull before the windlass is activated, and many times people don't remember that in the stress of the moment.

Related To: GT Distributors Inc. GT Distributors now offers Elite First Aid’s Combat Application Tourniquet. Police personnel as first responders use the C-A-T tourniquet to save lives at accident ...

FORT DETRICK, MD -- Makers of the Combat Application Tourniquet™ have updated the design of the widely used tourniquet. The update has resulted in two different versions of the tourniquet currently in ...

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 ...

Makers of the Combat Application Tourniquet have updated the design. The update has resulted in two different versions of the tourniquet currently in use in the field, though both have the same ...

Lt. Gen. Nadja Y. West, the new Army Surgeon General, posed the battlefield medicine question Thursday that had no answer until recently: “How do you put a tourniquet around the chest?” It couldn’t be ...