Annals of Surgery
Volume 249, Number 1, January 2009
The purpose of this study at a combat support hospital in Baghdad was to determine if emergency tourniquet use saved lives.
Increase in survival rate by tourniquet use. By breaking down, the tourniquet use by whether the patient was prehospital or ED, whether there was shock present or absent at the time of application, and whether tourniquets were used or not, a comparison of raw differences in survival rates indicates that the survival benefit to tourniquet use is more strongly related to tourniquet use before the patient has progressed to shock than to prehospital use.