Practicing CAT7 tourniquet - how check legs?

[Omega]

I am practicing CAT7 tourniquet. It is quite ok on hands - I apply tourniquet until oximiser stops sensing pulse on my finger. However, oximiser does not fit my toe. How do I check I applied sufficient pressure on my legs? I do not trust trying to check pulse by fingers as they often do not sense that the pulse is still there
Thanks

[Yorkshire Andy]

First aid... You tighten it up till blood stops leaking... Nothing more complex than that...

5cm above the wound regardless of single / double bone compartment... If the first one is ft and bleeding still occurring place a second tourniquet 5cm above the first unless on a joint then you go above...


Ideally a pressure dressing & gauze should be tried first unless claret is shooting across the room

[ForgeCorvus]

Unless its Hosing go with pad,dressing and pressure..... If it is bad enough to need a CAT wind it up until the blood stops.

TK's should only be removed in Resus or Theater...... ie not by you or me.

I think you'll find that if you're practicing until your pulse stops then you're not going far enough, after all a blood pressure cuff has to stop your pulse and I don't think you could use one of those as a TK.

And now we wait for a real medic to come along and tell us we're all wrong

[Yorkshire Andy]

Unless its Hosing go with pad,dressing and pressure..... If it is bad enough to need a CAT wind it up until the blood stops.

TK's should only be removed in Resus or Theater...... ie not by you or me.

I think you'll find that if you're practicing until your pulse stops then you're not going far enough, after all a blood pressure cuff has to stop your pulse and I don't think you could use one of those as a TK.

And now we wait for a real medic to come along and tell us we're all wrong

When you do it tight they scream.....

[jansman]

First aid... You tighten it up till blood stops leaking... Nothing more complex than that...

5cm above the wound regardless of single / double bone compartment... If the first one is ft and bleeding still occurring place a second tourniquet 5cm above the first unless on a joint then you go above...


Ideally a pressure dressing & gauze should be tried first unless claret is shooting across the room

It’s that simple.This last twelve months I’ve had a tourniquet almost daily at times,and what Andy describes is bang on.

[Mad Scientist]

Great to see you back Jansman!!

[jansman]

Great to see you back Jansman!!

And nice to hear from you too!