tegaderm on a GSW
My PA and I are discussing this right now, and we don't see the benefit of using an occlusive dressing on penetrating trauma. A principle of TC3 (Tactical Combat Casualty Care) is to stop life threatening bleeding by placing a tourniquet as high and tight as possible for extremity bleeding, combat gauze with ace wrap or an Israeli can be used after re-evaluating the need for a tq. For thoracic trauma with pnuemothorax, I can see where you could use a large tegaderm but there are better alternatives for Tactical Field Care like the HALO seal, HYFIN, or MRE packaging with some gorilla tape. I'm not trying to sharpshoot these medics, I would like to know because if there's a lot of positives of using TD we could do the same where I’m at.
Tourniquet, nose hose, chest seal, dart!
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