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Laura Auel winced as Clif Castleman tightened a bright orange training tourniquet around her upper arm. “There we go,” Castleman said as he constricted the veins and arteries in the 21-year-old college student's right arm. “In some cases, and in some I’ve done in real life, people have said [...]

Stop the Bleed Recommended Equipment Immediate responders need to recognize that applying pressure to a bleeding vessel is the appropriate first action to take and that their hands are a first-line resource. In most cases, control of external hemorrhage can be accomplished by applying direct pressure on the bleeding [...]

The places change, and the death tolls do, too — three at a marathon, eight on a New York City street, 26 at an elementary school, 27 in a church, 49 in a nightclub, 58 at a country music festival. These nonsensical, violent attacks leave many people critically wounded [...]

American College of Surgeons Releases Compendium of Strategies to Enhance Victims’ Survivability from Mass Casualty Events CHICAGO (September 22, 2015): A new compendium of expert recommendations on strengthening the security and resilience of U.S. citizens after mass casualty events was released this month as a [...]