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Combat Application Tourniquet® (C.A.T.®


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Wear an $800 vest, carry a $900 AED, and have a $25 C.A.T.®


Combat (C.A.T.®


Application Tourniquet®


By David Jones I ) ready to go! SUMMARY


Law enforcement officers, like their military counterparts, operate in a higher risk environment than most civilian occupations. One of these elevated risk factors is exposure to gunfire. Today, most departments recognize this threat and issue body armor to minimize the risk to their officers’ torso areas. An area often neglected is an officer’s extremities (arms and legs). A $25 Combat Application Tourniquet ® on each officer’s person makes sense to address blood loss that can cause death.


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David Jones is a retired Special Agent with the Department of


Defense and is currently serving as the Emergency Manager/Police Offi cer at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay Po- lice Department. He can be reached at djones1560@gmail.com.


The C.A.T. ® can be carried on your duty belt, attached to your outer vest cover, clipped to your rifle’s sling, etc.


16 The Police Marksman Sep-Oct 2014


t wasn’t very long ago that we were taught to use a tourniquet only as a last resort in order to stop blood loss from an extremity wound. The fear was that the tourniquet would cause irreparable damage to the limb. New evidence from recent military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as civilian bloodless extremity surgeries, has proven otherwise. The new theory is that it can take longer than two hours before a tourniquet can cause damage beyond repair. The vast majority of people in the United States can be transported to medical facilities within two hours but can bleed to death from a severed arterial in just a few minutes. Extremity blood loss is the number one cause of “most preventable death” that can be addressed at the self-aid level.


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