Probe Urged on Tourniquets: Why Don't Troops Have Them?

Field Of Dreams

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Thu Mar-10-05 10:41 AM
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Probe Urged on Tourniquets: Why Don't Troops Have Them?

http://tinyurl.com/5qt5a

And the beat goes on ... a story in today's Baltimore Sun.

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TheFarseer

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Thu Mar-10-05 10:51 AM
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1. It's more manly to rip your shirt and use it

as a tourniquet

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w4rma

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Thu Mar-10-05 11:08 AM
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2. There must be *alot* of amputations going on over there. (nt)

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tubbacheez

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Thu Mar-10-05 11:31 AM
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3. Tourniquets are out. Instant clotting powder is in.

Today's military issues packets of powder that cause blood to clot up really fast. It's slightly more expensive, but it's easier to use (and harder to misuse) than tourniquets.

And if somebody runs out of clotting powder, they can always improvise a tourniquet.

Issuing both powder AND tourniquets would be wasteful and probably stir resentment among the troops, IMHO.

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