Blood loss accounts for 31% of deaths of victims of trauma, many of these deaths are preventable through rapid access to tourniquets. A tourniquet should be a cornerstone of every first aid kit - yet almost none have them, and there is confusion about how to use them. This guide will get you squared away on when, why and how to use tourniquets.
We are genuinely honored to be supplying a truly great British Institution: RNLI. We are now providing them with our weatherproof writing system: TacFolders and StormPads for use on rescue operations throughout the UK.
We have a culture that encourages massive stacking of risk for youngsters, under the guise of protecting them and keeping them safe. By doing this we simply make them fragile and brittle. They are unable to cope outside the thin walls of the zoo we live in. We tell ourselves that the walls will always be there, but every adult knows in thier guts that we are closer to chaos then we let on. Things fall apart.