Cliff Fall
An EMS clinician's pocket-carried ETQ Wide went on above a tourniquet already in place, and held through an extraction from a riverbank.
- Applied by EMS
- On duty
- Worked as expected
- Survived
Reported source material
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[Y]our TQs are amazing. I work in EMS and carry them every day [to work] with me in my pocket and had a call today where a lady fell down a cliff and had an open fracture on her right knee. [Police department prior] to us getting on scene applied a CAT and her leg was still bleeding. [I] used the [ETQ] and it stopped the bleeding and worked like it should.
Applicator comments
[T]he TQ worked the way it was designed; it was small enough that I was able to have it on me and use it [without] thinking about it, and the application was straightforward. …I can carry it every day on the truck where I don't have to go searching through [our] own [first aid] bag to get a TQ.
[I applied] it above the [first] TQ that the Officer put on to control the bleeding that was still going, and it was able to stop the bleeding and did not come loose or shift during the [e]xtraction out of the riverbank. After talking to the Trauma Doctor at the hospital, the patient did lose a lot of blood, but with the appropriate care and application of the TQ, the [patient was able] to make a full recovery and is now in [r]ehab.
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