Blackhawk Warrior Wear combat uniforms feature integrated tourniquets
By Nilay Patel 
posted Sep 7th 2007 10:08AM
posted Sep 7th 2007 10:08AM
posted Sep 7th 2007 10:08AM
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Soldier 1: Hey I'm almost done with the tourniquet on your arm!
Soldier 2: Its my leg thats messed up, my arm is fine!
Soldier 1: Hold on, I'll get your leg in a sec, let me just finish your arm.
Poor taste.
Am I missing a subtle pun or is it really just that lame?
Has anyone ever been in the military before. I've seen soldiers do "hey lets play football with the m9" or "Hey stick me with that IV, it'll be fun" or dozens of other silly games. I wouldn't be surprised to see some soldier lost his leg because....
yeah, sorry it was lame!
Heorin addicts should flock to these like ghetto kids at a flea market.
Hey, this is an amazing idea. We need more of this kind of thinking in design. It seems so obvious!
Heroin addicts shoot up in their legs?
Heroin addicts do the darndest things
@fred:
"A sample of 200 injecting drug users were interviewed about their bodily injection sites.(...) Almost all (99%) had injected in the cubital fossa (crook of the arm). The next most popular site was the forearm (71%). Other sites included the hand (53%), foot (19%), leg (18%), neck (10%) and groin (6%)."
Physical injecting sites among injecting drug users in Sydney, Australia (Drug Alcohol Depend. 2001 Mar 1;62(1):77-82)
Is it ok if I shudder now? I hate needles as it it why would anybody shoot up in their junkital area. Oof!
They should combine these with the drum pants, they would sell like hotcakes.
I would focus more on preventing those injuries that cause the high blood loss. I'd rather be down a limb than dead, but I'd rather be alive and intact than sans a limb.
Eh, I'll take their integrated halo-like force field pants instead. But thank you!
As an EMT, I think that's really clever.
As an EMT, I think its clever as well....but its needs another just above the knee. Either that, or the straps need to be able to pull out and be placed where most effective instead of just those 2 locations. If I blew my leg off just below the knee, I wouldn't be so keen on losing the rest almost to my hip.
You can just pull the pant leg up...
I would assume that detachment of the leg below the knee implies detachment of the pants covering said part of the leg as well--rendering pulling them up a difficult, if not futile endeavor.
Fantastic idea, however...when can civilians like ME order a pair? Daddy needs not one, but several new pairs of pants.
First of all, using a tourniquet on a limb does not automatically mean you'll lose the limb. As EMTs some of y'all should know that.
Secondly, the placement of the lower leg tourniquet is rather stupid since the artery runs between the bones. You can't compress it with a torniquet there.
I'm sure this idea will save lives, but how good is it for moral? Nothing says "Hey, your about to get your @#$! shot off!" like a guy handing you a set of clothes with built in tourniquets.