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Best Practices of Tourniquet Application: Clearing Up the Confusion
Tourniquets like the CAT (Combat Application Tourniquet) have been around for decades, but the conception of tourniquet application was invented long before that. It’s no ...

Should Children’s Medical Injuries Be Treated Differently Than Adults?
It’s one thing to put a tourniquet on a 195-pound adult – it’s quite another to put a tourniquet on a child. Or is it? ...

Types of Machine Injuries and How to Treat Them
While we typically spend a great deal of time speaking about responding to workplace violence or school shootings, there are many workplace injuries that occur ...

5 Items You NEED in Your Emergency Medical Kit and Why
First aid kits have their place — like maybe when you get a paper cut or tear a hangnail — but the bandaids and antiseptic ...

Levels of Situational Awareness: Which zone are you in?
Situational awareness is important for everyone — every teacher, student, working professional, church attendee, and stay-at-home parent. Granted, it’s unrealistic, and arguably unnecessary, for civilians ...

Don’t Make These Mistakes in an Active Shooter Situation
Rarely is there just one right way to respond in an emergency. Everyone reacts a little differently during a crisis, but through our years of ...

6 Habits of People Who Are Situationally Aware
Some people go about their day very attentive to their surroundings, and others are completely oblivious. Most civilians fall somewhere in the middle. We will ...

Can You Stop the Bleed?
Two minutes. Maybe three; four if you’re lucky — that’s all the time you have to treat a serious hemorrhage before it’s fatal. The fact ...

9 Ways to Keep Employees Safe on the Manufacturing Floor
Manufacturing jobs present a unique set of risks. The presence of hazardous materials and heavy machinery set the stage for all sorts of workplace accidents, ...