How to apply a tourniquet correctly

NAR Cat Gen-7 Tourniquet

Welcome back to the BowTiedGasMask substack and home of the Hard to Kill IFAK!

Someone plugged you with a 9mm, cut you up with a switch blade, or maybe like my wife’s grandpa you reached up under your brush hog before the blade quit spinning.

You’re leaking bad and you need it to stop.

Let us shill for a little bit.

We run authentic NAR CAT Gen 7 tourniquets in our kits.

Why though?

A few reasons

1. Quality - NAR CAT’s are known for superior quality. If you need one, chance are you are f*cked up and need emergency services. The last thing you want is to reach into your trauma kit, pull out the TQ, put it on, crank it down and the windlass snap… (ALSO - BE CAREFUL OF KNOCKOFFS)

2. Familiarity - Let’s say someone is having to put it on for you. The last thing you want is a less common TQ that someone doesn’t know how to use. This is why we avoid RATS. Not because they don’t work for blood occlusion, they just don’t have the same reach as NAR’s do and thus people don’t know how to apply them.

But why take our word for it? Follow link below from the CoTCCC.

According to the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC), the only two tourniquets they recommend are the CAT-7 and the SOFTT-W tourniquet.

So, let’s get down to bidness.

Tourniquet Application: A life saving guide in a traumatic event