bleeding control

North American Rescue (NAR) Bleeding Control Kit with Audio Instruction

Mass shootings, cars plowing into crowds, bombings, knife attacks, vehicle accidents. Tragic events happen daily in the world around us. There is no escaping its reach. Every one of you reading this has experienced tragedy in some form or another, whether it was physically, something you saw on social media, read it in the paper, or […]

Civilians in combat: Preparing yourself medically

Gun control is a topic swirling in the hearts and minds of many Americans today. Will restricting the use of firearms help lower the amount of mass shootings? Or will it enable the shooters who procure illegal firearms to meet less resistance? One thing most everyone can agree on: these situations are always going to […]

Trauma Kit vs First Aid Kit | Whats the difference?

Is it a first aid or a trauma kit? OR…..is it both? The correct answer is that it should be either one or the other and that you should know, both, the differences AND the limitations of each. A first aid kit isn’t a trauma kit, though it can have some traumatic care items in […]

Bleeding control | A paradigm shift with the SWAT-T tourniquet

A tourniquet is not a device, it is a philosophy! A philosophy that when used in the pre-hospital setting has saved thousands of lives in the past decade. Commercial tourniquets have proven to be superior to improvised, but whatever your planned intervention we know that we all have to “See Something, Do Something” and “Stop The […]