{"id":7637,"date":"2015-08-26T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=7637"},"modified":"2015-08-26T16:00:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T21:00:33","slug":"beware-of-fake-tourniquets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2015\/08\/26\/beware-of-fake-tourniquets\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware of Fake Tourniquets!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A Fake Tourniquet Could Cost Your Life!<\/h3>\n

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Counterfeit tourniquets, of all things.<\/p>\n

On July 14, 2015, an Ocean City, New Jersey patrolman applied a tourniquet to an 18-year old traffic victim\u2019s leg. This action is credited with saving her life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On August 8, 2015, a Florida deputy sheriff investigator used a tourniquet to\u00a0save the life<\/a> of a woman who had lost an arm in an alligator attack.<\/p>\n

That same day police officers in Tulsa, Oklahoma used a tourniquet to stop blood flowing from a severed artery. According to emergency room physicians, this act saved the victim\u2019s life<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On August 22, 2015, Dallas police officers saved the life<\/a> of a 4-year old drive-by shooting victim by applying a tourniquet.<\/p>\n

But now, dangerous fake tourniquets<\/strong> have entered the market.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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According to Chris Hickey, EMS Training Officer for the Manchester<\/a> New Hampshire Fire Department, a tourniquet is \u201cbasically a belt with a rod that you \u201ctwist, twist and twist\u201d until the flow of blood is stopped, and then the rod is inserted into a clip to hold it in place.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A Fake Tourniquet Could Cost Your Life!   Counterfeit tourniquets, of all things. On July 14, 2015, an Ocean City, New Jersey patrolman applied a tourniquet to an 18-year old traffic victim\u2019s leg. This action is credited with saving her life. On August 8, 2015, a Florida deputy sheriff investigator used a tourniquet to\u00a0save the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[74,118,1841,10,404],"tags":[2012,2013,2014],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}