06/17/2023
⚠️ Buyer Beware ⚠️
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There are a lot of knock off tourniquets popping up all over. While it may seem like a logical way to save a few bucks, there are significant dangers when you use life-saving medical equipment that hasn’t gone through the rigors of a legitimate manufacturing and quality management process. This latest article compares a knock off CAT (MTET) to the real thing.
What they did: Randomized cross-over trial using 50 medics (Army 68W) to self-apply the CAT and the MTET to lower extremity. Success = loss of distal pulse (assessed by Doppler US) in