The military emergency tourniquet program's lessons learned with devices and designs

Military Medicine

Volumn 176, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1144-1152

  Kragh Jr , John F ^a   O'Neill, Michelle L ^b   Walters, Thomas J ^a   Dubick, Michael A ^a   Baer, David G ^a   Wade, Charles E W ^c   Holcomb, John B ^c   Blackbourne, Lorne H ^a  

^a US ARMY INSTITUTE OF SURGICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b U S ARMY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INJURY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIMB; MILITARY MEDICINE; TOURNIQUET;

EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXTREMITIES; HUMANS; INSERVICE TRAINING; MILITARY MEDICINE; TOURNIQUETS;

EID: 80053485982     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7205/MILMED-D-11-00114     Document Type: Article

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