The journal of trauma and acute care surgery
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J Trauma Acute Care Surg · Jul 2015
Multicenter StudyA multi-institutional analysis of prehospital tourniquet use.
Recent military studies demonstrated an association between prehospital tourniquet use and increased survival. The benefits of this prehospital intervention in a civilian population remain unclear. The aims of our study were to evaluate tourniquet use in the civilian population and to compare outcomes to previously published military experience. We hypothesized that incorporation of tourniquet use in the civilian population will result in an overall improvement in mortality. ⋯ Epidemiologic study, level V.