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MOULAGE O F T H E M O N T H NEW Bobbie Merica continues her guide to simulating injuries and illnesses through efective use of moulage. This month: Industrial response, fying debris. See EMSWorld.com/12214033. FEATURES Stuck in Reverse >> EMSWorld.com/12205052 In this month's Life Support Mike Rubin asks: What if paid EMS providers are encroaching on a service that's meant to be all volunteer? Month in Review >> EMSWorld.com/12217067 If you're looking to catch up with the latest news, most popular articles and the EMS chatter on social media, check out EMS World's Month in Review column. WEBCASTS V i s i t E M S Wo r l d . c o m / w e b c a s t s t o v i e w p r e v i o u s p r e s e n t a t i o n s : How to Prepare and Deliver High-Value EMS Simulation Maximizing Your Revenue: The Critical Link Between Documentation, Reimbursement & Compliance Recognizing and Reacting to the Lost Advanced Airway Time Is Brain: The Need for Speed in Large Vessel Occlusion twitter.com/emsworldnews www.linkedin.com/groups/1853412 facebook.com/emsworldfans ADVERTORIAL Stopping the Bleed When a patient is heavily bleeding, time is of the essence. To help stop the bleeding quickly and efficiently, Compression Works provides the Abdominal Aortic and Junctional Tourniquet (AAJT). The AAJT utilizes a belt, windlass and pneumatic pressure to compress the aorta or the arteries supplying the groin or axilla. The AAJT can be used in the groin, the armpit or the abdomen and is FDA cleared for all junctional hemorrhage sites. The tourniquet can remain in position for up to four hours. The AAJT is the only device to have an approved indication for bleeding in the pelvis, and is the only device of its kind with inde- pendent international validation of its effectiveness. Brian Girard, vice president of marketing and sales with T1G, a company that helps train EMS, military and other first responders, says they have used the AAJT in training since about 2012. Girard says in 2012, a group of pararescue jumpers came through his training facility with the AAJT and left some as tourniquets for his company to keep. Impressed with the product, Girard began implementing it into training procedures. Before fully implementing it, Girard ran an impromptu focus group with a group of Marines who came through T1G for train- ing. Girard said he wanted to see how easy the product was to use for someone who hadn't used it before. "We mainly wanted to see the application times, because the pararescue jumpers who brought us the product had already been messing with it, so of course they were good at it," Girard says. They split the Marines into two groups, and showed one group the general, two-minute crash course on how to use the AAJT. The second group didn't get to see the product before being asked to use it. The first group got the AAJT on and the hemorrhage con- trolled in about 45 seconds, and the second group was able to get the hemorrhage under control in a little over two minutes while also using direct pressure to the wound to help stop the bleeding. After the focus group, users had nothing but positive things to say about the AAJT. "Everyone liked it, thought it was easy to put on, and obviously it worked," Girard says. Girard says a big reason why he likes to train people with the AAJT is that junctional hemorrhage control is so important. "At the time, junctional hemorrhage was one of the No. 1 killers on the battlefield," Girard says. "We had pretty much all known someone who had died from junctional hemorrhage on the battle- field, so it didn't take any convincing for us to use the product." Girard says working with Compression Works has been a simple process, and the company has been prompt and extremely respon- sive to the limited number of issues T1G has brought to their atten- tion. Girard says after hundreds of uses and cleanings (whereas the average user only uses the AAJT a few times), a piece came unglued. When this was brought to the attention of Compres- sion Works, along with a few other minor tweaks T1G suggested that might improve the functionality, changes were made almost immediately. Overall, Girard says he would gladly recommend the AAJT to any agencies looking for a junctional tourniquet. To learn more about the AAJT, visit compressionworks.com. Circle 14 on the Product Information Card 8 JULY 2016 | EMSWORLD.com