Ingenious Tourniquet Invention Saves Lives

Croushorn’s fanny pack-like tourniquet (which won a 2012 Popular Science invention award) received FDA approval in 2011 and saved its first two lives this summer. On June 7 in Birmingham, Ala., a blood-soaked, unconscious 41-year-old man arrived at a hospital in the passenger seat of a car. The man had lost 75 percent of his […]