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Training
Trauma Care on the Front Lines of Patrol
North American Rescue's combat medical training provides police first responders with basic focused training on applying pressure dressings, tourniquets, haemostatic agents, control hypothermia, as well as how to reduce tension pneumothorax.
November 10, 2011
Applying a wound closure. Photo: Scott Smith
Careers
Do You Carry an Individual First-Aid Kit?
You must be prepared to handle a "blow out" of bleeding. Tourniquets, hemostatic agents, and dressing should your main priority. In other words, prepare for self-aid or buddy aid for serious trauma survival.
August 22, 2011
S.O. Tech offers the Sliver medical kit. Photo: S.O. Tech.
Patrol
QuikClot Belt Trauma Kit
Z-Medica
Z-Medica Corp.'s QuikClot Belt Trauma Kit is a hemostatic kit designed especially for law enforcement agencies so officers can stop traumatic bleeding quickly and help save lives. The new QuikClot Belt Trauma Kit is compact, lightweight, and cost-effective.
January 27, 2011
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Special Units
California Officer Takes 60 Units of Blood After Gunshot
Fremont officer Todd Young, 39, and a fellow officer had tried to arrest Andrew Barrientos, 20, who was wanted for a string of crimes. Young, who required 60 units of blood during surgery, is in critical but stable condition.
August 27, 2010
Patrol
Field Trauma Care for LEOs
Every officer should have a minimum amount of medical equipment as well as training to use the equipment. As I have stated at POLICE-TREXPO in some of my presentations, my dream is for a small kit with the essentials to appear on the belt or in a pocket of every LEO.
August 4, 2010
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