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Its funny, we are in the middle of a re-cert cycle for our EMT licences. You learn something new every time you go to these things. The last session talked about snake bite. I suggested cleaning off the skin earlier....apparently quite a lot of the venom is released on the surface of...

If you are going to pour whiskey on it Butch...use cheap whiskey.

Bite below level of heart if possible. Wash off skin very well. Stay calm, apply ice.

Well, giving a man smashed under a beer is a bad idea anyway.

Makes sense. Near as I can tell it pulls the liquid fraction out of the blood to aid in clotting. Probably not good to get in your peepers!

I have some "combat" dressings but no granuals. I keep some of that stuff for my personal use, but we dont use it on the ambulance. I have never had to use one in anger, but we were trained with most of them. If it were me, I would stick to the dressings. Read the directions and you will...

I have no experience with those Robert.

Quick clot is good stuff....there are a few other makers out there too that make good stuff as well. The current products have been deemed safe and effective enough to be carried and used buy ambulance and fire service crews by their medical control. Having said that, we dont carry it on...

Marc-Antoine, the main difference is that the squeezing force is applied in a more spread out manner with a commercial tourniquet. The difference would kind of be like twisting a rope around your arm or twisting a wire. With a commercial tourniquet, you have instruction on how many turns of...

I hate that smell Butch!

Another tourniquet. I really dont mean to make the use of a tourniquet sound like a last ditch anything. It should be used early and often....if you have one. You will not cause the flesh to die with a commercial tourniquet if used properly. You will cause tissue damage and death...

The IT clamp is not near as hard to use as you might think. They work really, really well on an arterial bleed that the artery has pulled back into the muscle and cant be manipulated. The compartment is eventually filled with blood...and not a lot...and being a sealed vessel, the pressures...

Haha! Sure Stig....sure.

There are some good bandages out there, the Israeli Bandage comes to mind, as well as Quick Clot impregnated gauze, but if you cant physically gain control of the artery they may not do you much good. With the impregnated gauze you can pack it into the wound and hopefully stop the blood flow...