Angle Grinder Wrist Laceration
A deputy replaced an improvised T-shirt tourniquet with an ETQ. Flight-medic staff linked the speed of deployment to the patient surviving.
- Applied by Law enforcement
- Worked as expected
- Survived
Reported source material
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A Deputy Sheriff/SRT operator in rural eastern Idaho responded to a male who had sliced his wrist with an angle grinder. Before the deputy arrived, the patient had applied an improvised tourniquet made from a T-shirt. The deputy applied a Snakestaff ETQ to the arm and reported being able to deploy it rapidly because it was hung with the SRC.
The deputy reported that flight-medic staff described the ETQ results as excellent and stated that rapid deployment from the SRC directly correlated with the patient still being alive.
"SRC" appears twice in this record and is not defined in the document's legend. Left as written pending confirmation.
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