Life-saving Battlefield Tourniquet Approved

The Abdominal Aortic and Junctional Tourniquet–Stabilized (AAJT-S) that treats both pelvic hemorrhage and severe bilateral lower junctional hemorrhage has been approved for use by paramedics and other first-responders in Alabama. The Abdominal Aortic and Junctional Tourniquet–Stabilized (AAJT-S) that treats both pelvic hemorrhage and severe bilateral lower junctional hemorrhage has been approved for use by paramedics […]

Complications Of The AAJT-S: What Research Says

Tactical medics worldwide use the Abdominal Aortic and Junctional Tourniquet–Stabilized (AAJT-S) to control hemorrhage from armpit, groin and pelvic injuries. Tactical medics worldwide use the Abdominal Aortic and Junctional Tourniquet–Stabilized (AAJT-S) to control hemorrhage from armpit, groin and pelvic injuries. Research over the last Zve years has proven that the AAJT-S can effectively halt massive […]

Alabama LEO Deploying New Life- Saving Technology

The AAJT-S continues to be the only junctional and true truncal tourniquet to have saved life in upper and lower junctional hemorrhage. Birmingham, November 8, 2016 — In 2016, the number of Alabama Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) with access to the AAJT-S has more than doubled due to threats and officer assassination attempts around the […]

Stopping Hemorrhage By Aortic Compression

Noncompressible torso hemorrhage is recognized as the leading cause of death in trauma, but definitive hemorrhage control has been challenging. Limb exsanguination is no longer the most common cause of preventable death on the battlefield because of emergency tourniquets. Hemorrhage control for wounds in the junction between the trunk and the limbs and in the […]

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 […]

Soldier Saver

An inflatable tourniquet that stops abdominal bleeding, AN INFLATABLE TOURNIQUET THAT STOPS ABDOMINAL BLEEDING While serving as an army medic during Operation Desert Storm, Richard Schwartz became all too familiar with gunshot wounds, particularly shots to the pelvis and upper legs. Enemies would target that region because body armor doesn’t always cover it. Conventional tourniquets […]