A multi-institutional analysis of prehospital tourniquet use

Rebecca Schroll,Alison Smith,Norman E. McSwain,John G. Myers,Kristin Rocchi,Kenji Inaba,Stefano Siboni,Gary Vercruysse,Irada Ibrahim-Zada,Jason L. Sperry,Christian Martin-Gill,Jeremy W. Cannon,Seth R. Holland,Martin A. Schreiber,Diane Lape,Alexander L. Eastman,Cari Stebbins,Paula Ferrada,Jinfeng Han,Peter Meade,Duchesne Jc

A multi-institutional analysis of prehospital tourniquet use

2015

BACKGROUNDRecent military studies demonstrated an association between prehospital tourniquet use and increased survival. The benefits of this prehospital intervention in a civilian population remain unclear. The aims of our study were to evaluate tourniquet use in the civilian population and to comp

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Intensive care medicine
Surgery
Medicine
Tourniquet
Medical emergency
civilian population
Institutional analysis

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