The RATS tourniquet has a metal cleat at one end and a long, elastic band made of vulcanized rubber attached to it. • Start by holding the metal cleat in one hand. • At the end with the cleat, the rubber band should be threaded through to form what they refer to as a three finger loop. • Your limb does NOT go through the three finger loop. • Place the cleat on the limb requiring a tourniquet and wrap the long length of rubber around the limb. • Thread the long end of the rubber band through the three finger loop and pull until snug. • Wrap the long length of rubber back on itself and continue wrapping the limb until the elastic is used up or the blood flow has stopped.

Good for a pressure dressing and other uses but not their go to tourniquet. As for the RATS having too small a footprint, that is a concern.

• With every wrap you should be stretching the rubber so that the band pulls tight and cuts off blood flow. • Do not pull the band as tight as it can go because it can cause permanent neurovascular damage if tightened too much. Jigsaw Movie 2017 Online Watch. • Hook the end of the rubber band into the cleat to secure the tourniquet in place.

RATS Tourniquet vs SOFT T Wide and CAT Tourniquets Elastic tourniquets are already standard in hospitals as surgeons use them to cut off arterial blood flow during surgery. Miyuki Miyabe_ico_ Castle In The Mist Epublibre on this page. In hospitals, however, the pressure can be carefully monitored unlike in the real world.

Every time an elastic band is stretched around a limb, it increases the pressure force on the soft tissue underneath by about 2 to 3 times depending on how far the elastic is stretched[1]. This large increase in pressure will stop bleeding fast and effectively, but the pressure can easily be so great that it causes permanent nerve and soft tissue damage to the limb[2,3]. The uncertain pressure caused by the RATS tourniquet is a problem in the field because you are allowing human error to play a part during an extremely stressful life or death scenario. Wrapping the tourniquet too tightly could cause permanent neurovascular damage, but wrapping it too loosely will not stop the bleeding. Then, if you do not hit that sweet spot, you have to rewrap the entire RATS tourniquet which restarts the bleeding. It is better if the tourniquet’s design prevents these problems. The use windlasses as a tightening mechanism because they have adjustable pressure.