Uncontrolled bleeding is still the number one preventable cause of death in combat. That hasn’t changed. Tourniquets changed the game. Hemostatic gauze like QuikClot Combat Gauze changed it again. Now ...

Knowing how to control bleeding quickly and effectively—and having the right equipment on hand—saves lives in the case of a traumatic accident. There are several effective ways to control bleeding in ...

Joseph Bentley, a final year product design and technology student at Loughborough University, developed REACT, currently at the prototype stage. The device targets wound areas that are normally hard ...

SHREVEPORT, La. (KSLA) - As EMS Week comes to a close, the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office is teaching young people how to be prepared...because sometimes, you only have seconds. “Well today we’re ...

Contact layer dressings are single layer, either woven or nonwoven materials designed to protect fragile tissue in the wound bed. They can be perforated or permeable, allowing exudates to pass through ...

I am going to be frank with you. When it comes to packing an abscess, I absolutely hate it. There is something so barbaric to the idea of shoving a foreign object into someone and telling them to come ...

A university student has designed a potentially life-saving device that first responders can use to rapidly stop catastrophic blood loss from knife wounds. Joseph Bentley, a final year product design ...