When seconds matter and help is still minutes away, the ability to stop severe bleeding or stabilize a wounded person can ...

There is an age-old debate in Tactical Medicine on what method is better for tourniquet placement: “High and Tight” or 2 to 3 inches above the wound. As a SWAT Medic and a NAEMT TCCC, TECC, PHTLS ...

Dr. Barbara Bass, left, shows Harris County Sheriff Adrian Garcia and Dr. Aashish Shah how to practice airway management on a practice mannequin at Houston Methodist’s Institute for Technology, ...

It’s not easy dragging a fellow police officer, with a hypothetical critical injury, into the back of a patrol car and treating that person in such a tight space, but Sacramento police's Jacob Casella ...

Department officers can already provide first aid — cardiopulmonary resuscitation, stoppage of bleeding and the like — but the newly authorized training, coupled with expected follow up, will qualify ...

It's tempting to say Dr. Thomas Page practices medicine by day, as medical director at the Etowah County Detention Center and a volunteer at the Etowah County Free Clinic, and tactical medicine by ...

PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. -- Gunshots. Stab wounds. Shrapnel. They're injuries often associated with combat -- but increasingly, police departments are adopting lessons learned from battlefield ...

The command of the Medical Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has clarified that tactical medicine is supplied to combat military units both by the command itself and by volunteer organisations.