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D9
your thoughts are correct, no one tool is ever perfect and like anything else, chance favors the unlucky in the described environment. I have seen all types of tourniquets fail under varied circumstances.....murphy lives on. The SWAT-T is another piece of kit that is useful and effective until it fails; just like everything else any of us carry. Having a backup plan seems to be the best piece of kit we have!
ss
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'Revel in action, translate perceptions into instant judgements, and these into actions that are irrevocable, monumentous and dreadful - all this with lightning speed, in conditions of great stress and in an environment of high tension:what is expected of "us" is the impossible, yet we deliver just that.
(adapted from: Sherwin B. Nuland, MD, surgeon and author: The Wisdom of the Body, 1997 )
Education is the anti-ignorance we all need to better treat our patients. ss, 2008.
The blade is so sharp that the incision is perfect. They don't realize they've been cut until they're out of the fight: A Surgeon Warrior. I use a knife to defend life and to save it. ss (aka traumadoc)
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