The war in Ukraine is exposing the dangers of prolonged tourniquet use. US special operations medics are adapting.
BLUF – The article describes how lessons from the war in Ukraine are reshaping U.S. combat casualty care by emphasizing that medics must be prepared not only to apply tourniquets but also to safely convert or remove them when evacuation is delayed, as prolonged use can lead to limb loss, kidney injury, nerve damage, and other serious complications. For Navy Medicine, the experience reinforces the need to train corpsmen and medical personnel for prolonged field care in distributed maritime operations, where contested evacuation may require advanced hemorrhage control, extended casualty management, and greater clinical decision-making at the point of injury.
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