INTRODUCTION
hemorrhage, bleeding
HEMORRHAGE, BLEEDING
Immediate hemorrhage control with a limb tourniquet has been life-saving both on and off the battlefield.While the Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT) and other windlass-rod tourniquets can stop bleeding, the public is just 20% successful at applying them without training.To boost performance by the lay public, a team of academic and industry partners developed the Layperson Audiovisual Assist Tourniquet (LAVA TQ)—the first audiovisual-enabled layperson tourniquet to improve the public’s ability, even if untrained, to save lives from extremity hemorrhage (A recent multisite, international study addressed the 