University of Texas Dell Medical Center Study on Tourniquet use by Civilians

[okie]

Thanks for sharing this research! I am newbie about the gun. My father wants to buy it, but I am really worried about it. So I am trying to learn about it as much as I can.

Nothing can replace gun safety courses with hands on instruction. If everyone would follow any one of the three safety rules at all times, accidents would be virtually nonexistent. Every accident is always without exception caused by a complete breakdown in all three categories. The system works when people learn it and practice it.

[99cobra2881]

Nice. I just started putting together a small IFAK, and this makes me feel slightly less silly in doing so. I've narrowed it down to tourniquet, combat gauze, chest seals, trauma shears, nasopharyngeal, and pneumothorax. If there's room left, I'll add an Israeli bandage and maybe a space blanket.

Background in medical field or what training do you have for the chest decompression needle?

[chuckman]

Background in medical field or what training do you have for the chest decompression needle?

This is often a contentious issue. An IFAK is to be used on YOU, by someone else. You might get a trauma surgeon, you might get Ricky Rescue who saw it on Youtube. The probability is more the latter and not the former. I do not advocate anyone use one if they have not been trained. Even if you have been trained, depending on state law, you may or may not be liable regardless of any Good Samaritan laws.

I will say, in 30 years (almost 31 now), I have never seen anyone die of a singular tension pneumo. TPs are usually accompanied by other things, and those other things are usually the cause of death.

[TBAR_94]

I will say, in 30 years (almost 31 now), I have never seen anyone die of a singular tension pneumo. TPs are usually accompanied by other things, and those other things are usually the cause of death.

I’m not an expert at all, but I feel like needing to do decompression as a citizen seems like a unicorn scenario. TQs, bandages, gauze and a cell phone seem way more useful than a needle.