Last week, the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) issued a revised list of approved medical devices for TCCC. This is the first time that new tourniquets have been added to the list in years.
One of these new tourniquets is the Tactical Mechanical Tourniquet available through Combat Medical.
The TMT is now the widest approved TQ. Applied within 30 seconds, the buckle secures the running end of the strap and the windless is secured via a clip. You can both hear and feel when the windless is correctly secured. Additionally, it can be self applied if needed with the strap already running through the buckle. In fact, it will fit limbs between 5-3/4″ and 38″.
The TMT has also been assigned NSN 6515-01-656-6191.
And still the RATS isn’t on the list
TFW you spoof the real CoTCCC and try to smear everyone else to promote your shitty medical tubing TQ only to STILL not be considered medically effective.
Womp. Womp.
TFW when half the guys at work are carrying one on their first line because it’s “just as good” and nobody in a leadership slot is in the know enough to tell them its only good for autoerotic asphyxiation.
I’m not affiliated with nor defending RATS. It is my understanding that they are useful on very small limbs, like K9’s and children. The CAT that I carry is not useful on either of those. If I am wrong, please educate.
CATs will work on kids just fine.
“They identified no pediatric-specific problems in applying the tourniquets on kids despite the tourniquets being designed for adult casualties. The tourniquets seemed to work on kids just fine.”
https://www.crisis-medicine.com/do-commercially-available-tourniquets-work-on-kids/
SLG test it. I wouldn’t listen to anyone on the internet when you can simply do it yourself and know.
Here is the latest study on the CAT and Peds that was just published in Pediatrics, the American Acabemy of Pediatrics. BLUF The CAT works just fine.
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2019/05/03/peds.2018-3447
I just ordered one to check it out. I like that fact that is was only $30 and comes with a holder. Watching the vides, seems easy to deploy.
Thanks for the read. I trained with Dr. Shertz years ago, good instructor. I will have to test my CATS on the kids again and see how they do. They did not fit my littlest one when I last tried, about 2 years ago.
Good to see the SAM-XT made the list! My department switched to these about two years ago. Already had a couple of successful deployments of them. The nice thing about the SAM-XT is that the ratchet “clicks” when one has tightened it adequately before using the windlass. This is a really nice feature as I’ve seen other TQ applied initially way to loosely and the windlass couldn’t take up all the slack.