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- education & training (see medical education & training)
- international health services
- trauma management
We have taken the novel Tourni-key and compared application times with a Combat Application Tourniquet (C-A-T). The Tourni-key has been shown to be a viable alternative when a C-A-T is unavailable.1 We timed UK infantry troops and compared the group with the Jamaican Defence Force (JDF). We had 50 volunteers without prior medical experience from the JDF and 50 team medic trained Infantry personnel from British Forces. A model was built to replicate an arterial pressure of 150 mm Hg. The model consisted of a rubber tubing connected to a bag of saline (with a pressure infuser ERKA SWITCH 2.0 with pressure kept at 150 mm Hg) wrapped in two glossy magazines surrounded by a towel.
There were two groups, were timed on application of …
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Contributors JBTH conceived the idea. Data collection was completed by JBTH. Analysis was by JBTH and AHD with TJH oversight. The article was written by JBTH with AHD and TJH oversight and input. All approved the final version for publication.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests TJH is the creator of Tourni-key, but all proceeds go to charity. JBTH and AHD are both ambassadors for citizenAID which is the charity promoting the device and TJH is a founder of the same.
Patient consent for publication Not required.
Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.