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We tested a number of counterfeit tourniquets to destruction, along with real CATs and others. I wouldn't buy these.
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Nursemike, your comments are most enlightening. My experience has been that the most generally useful item in my FAK has been a 3" or 4" Ace bandage - good for splinting, direct pressure, and all sorts of applications. This has been in non
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Well, its a tourniquet, not a defibrillator. This is not improved technology on display, but aggressive marketing. Black dyed tactical toilet tissue is not more functional than Charmin. We used tourniquets professionally, occasionally to be sure,
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Thank you. The administration needs to add that to "ETS Acronyms," which is a locked thread. http://forums.equipped.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=182658#Post182658 Jeanette Isabelle
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MTC. My Two Cents
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“Penny Wise, Pound Foolish” comes to mind.
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I think we have that well established. The problem is to convince Mom of that. Jeanette Isabelle
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A review by someone without actual experience is worthless. For something as potentially critical as a TQ, a price differential of less than twenty bucks is inconsequential. What is a human life worth???
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Originally Posted By: DaveLMTC MTC is not among the list of acronyms. What does this one stand for? We need to add it to the list. Jeanette Isabelle
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Thanks for the vote of confidence, now to convince Mom of that. She plans to order one Recond tourniquet (if she has not already) to see how it compares with my C-A-T trainer. Hopefully, the proof will be in the pudding. Jeanette Isabelle
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Originally Posted By: Phaedrus if you really need one and it breaks, whoever you're putting it on may well die. I read somewhere that if the patient doesn´t scream with pain then the tourniquet is not tight enough.
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I would not trust my life to a counterfeit TQ. Sure, lots of positive reviews but I bet not one in fifty of those reviewers ever actually used it for real, probably far less. TQs are absolutely necessary very often but if you really need one and it
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I understand that the decisions are PG&E's. No direct gov't involvement. Nursemike raises an extremely valid concern but after the Camp Fire last year, something had to be done. According to an article in the LA Times, the response has been far
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Was this a government decision or PG&E? A fire caused by a gas generator is not PG&E’s problem. I doubt PG&E cares if there’s a fire as long as it’s not their fault.
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Wonder if a few hundred thousand small gasoline-powered generators provide a lesser wildfire threat than downed power lines. It is hard form me to sort out the elements of the official decision-making process that influence governmental disaster resp
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I bought the recon brand along with the swat T , for pressure bandage MTC YMMV
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Originally Posted By: Herman30Why? To have tourniquets in different locations. Jeanette Isabelle
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Originally Posted By: Jeanette_IsabelleMom believes we need a bunch of tourniquets Why?
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Natural Disasters & Large-Scale Emergencies
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Okay, I kinda liked the Tecsun PL-880 and now that’s it’s in hand and turned on, I do like it. I need to review/relearn the Tecsun tuning system again, it’s not intuitive. The PL-880’s tuning is similar to the Tecsun PL-360/CC GP-5 so the radio con
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Mom, who believes we need a bunch of tourniquets, is concerned about the $30 price tag on the C-A-T. She looks into cheaper, generic tourniquets with the same design and discovers the Recon Medical Tourniquets. https://www.reconmedical.com/tournique
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AM radio is a good way to stay connected and up to speed with current events. One of the issues with AM reception is having a decent radio, the other is having a better antenna. The nice thing about AM radio is that it propagates really well at nig
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when I was a classroom teacher on the Central West Coast of Florida, I gave a yearly emergency management lab on preparedness... my key emphasis was in fact to MAKE A PLAN...it involved many areas commonly identified, but with emphasis on when to put
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Necrotizing fasciitis at the beach Brain-eating amoebae at the beach E. Coli at the beach Avoid the beach.
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Natural Disasters & Large-Scale Emergencies
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The big storm barely touched us here in Bozeman but it really dumped north and west of it. Looks like my old home in Sioux Falls, SD will be spared the brunt of it this time.
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Around The Campfire
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Wow, it looks like it's done a lot of whisking over the last 40 years!
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