{"id":84447,"date":"2025-08-30T01:50:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=84447"},"modified":"2025-08-30T01:51:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:51:06","slug":"trauma-medicine-your-tourniquet-is-not-a-system-are-you-pretending-to-be-prepared","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/30\/trauma-medicine-your-tourniquet-is-not-a-system-are-you-pretending-to-be-prepared\/","title":{"rendered":"Trauma Medicine: YOUR TOURNIQUET IS NOT A SYSTEM. Are You Pretending To Be Prepared?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/primaryandsecondary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/CAT.jpg?resize=268%2C268&amp;ssl=1\" \/><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"post-title entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/trainwithwillis.blogspot.com\/2025\/08\/your-tourniquet-is-not-system-are-you.html?\">YOUR TOURNIQUET IS NOT A SYSTEM. Are You Pretending To Be Prepared?<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>\u00a0 It&#8217;s easy to feel like you&#8217;ve &#8220;checked the box&#8221; by carrying a tourniquet. I see it all the time. Someone straps one on their kit or throws it into their glove box, and suddenly the feel squared away for trauma response.\u00a0Here&#8217;s the reality: YOUR TOURNIQUET IS NOT A SYSTEM! And a system is what you want. \u00a0A tourniquet solves exactly one problem &#8211; uncontrolled extremity hemorrhage. Yes, that problem can kill quickly, it is far from the only life threatening bleed, or lethal trauma related injury you should leave your home prepared to deal with on a daily basis. DO NOT forget, you are 8X more likely to be party to a significant traumatic injury that a violent conflict. Does your training, or daily carry, reflect that reality?<\/h2>\n<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trainwithwillis.blogspot.com\/2025\/08\/your-tourniquet-is-not-system-are-you.html?\">RTWT @ Train With Willis<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Additional Reading:<\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"entryTitle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/primaryandsecondary.com\/buyer-beware-selecting-everyday-carry-tourniquet\/\">Buyer Beware: Selecting Your Everyday Carry Tourniquet<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgLxQF5hyIcpPOa9F-M9GvJ2gwXKbmcGGNegKI7fSRocz_csvqEF-kVDi0jae3sbwH3By6neNa2XRpzo_tptyCW-D_v747w1t7adUnCPaygeO34WMsdmOX3SwZZUWYEdj2frJ2Fn-oOREZ6t-fr-HWi0uqcFf9BxWBq2t-G6Z3RGAvQyz2cxy1-gx9mrw\/s320\/Image%205-20-25%20at%207.48%E2%80%AFPM.jpeg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-header\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YOUR TOURNIQUET IS NOT A SYSTEM. Are You Pretending To Be Prepared? &nbsp; \u00a0 It&#8217;s easy to feel like you&#8217;ve &#8220;checked the box&#8221; by carrying a tourniquet. I see it all the time. Someone straps one on their kit or throws it into their glove box, and suddenly the feel squared away for trauma response.\u00a0Here&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5445,3254,398,399,2161,496,484,1489,17417,404,405,4653,5623],"tags":[12724,8989,16918,18928,219,293],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84447"}],"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=84447"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84451,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84447\/revisions\/84451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}