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Noi pojat menevat aina aarimmaisyyksista aarimmaisyyksiin ja sitten asia todistetaan tutkimuksilla. Mita milta olette tuosta tekstin loppuosan ilmauksesta "80% siviili trauma uhreista kuolee verenhukkaan".
Alleviivaukset ja paksunnus omia.
Tourniquet:
After World War II, the US military reduced use of the technique because
the time between application and reaching medical attention was
so long that the damage from stopped circulation was worse than that from blood loss. Since the beginning of the 21st century, US authorities have resuscitated its use in both military and non-military situations because
treatment delays have been dramatically reduced. The Virginia State Police and police departments in Dallas, Philadelphia and other major cities provide tourniquets and other advanced bandages. In Afghanistan and Iraq. only 2 percent of soldiers with severe bleeding died compared with 7 percent in the
Vietnam War,
in part because of the combination of tourniquets and rapid access to doctors. In civilian use, emerging practices include transporting tourniquetted patients even before emergency responders arrive and including tourniquets with
defribillators for emergency use.
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Emergency tourniquets are used in emergency bleeding control to prevent severe blood loss from limb trauma. Traditionally, emergency tourniquets were generally used as a last resort, especially in civilian applications, due to the understanding that if all blood flow below the application of an emergency tourniquet is stopped, it would subsequently kill the tissue, leading to eventual loss of the limb below application. More recently, due to experience in treatment of patients in civilian attacks such as the
Boston bombing, and combat in
Iraq and
Afghanistan has changed the view of some within the emergency medicine field.
Uncontrolled hemorrhage is the most preventable cause of deaths on both the battlefield and the streets of the United States. Studies show up to 50% of combat fatalities and 80% of civilian trauma fatalities are due to uncontrolled hemorrhage from an extremity. It is possible to die of exsanguination from
femoral arterial bleeding in as little as three minutes. Use of tourniquets is widespread in military applications, as they have the potential to save lives during major limb trauma. Analysis has shown that in cases of
major limb trauma,
there is no apparent link between tourniquet application and morbidity of the limb.
