NCT04870814

Comparison of 4 Tactical Tourniquets Used in War Medicine

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 46 (actual)
• Sponsor: Direction Centrale du Service de Santé des Armées · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Bleeding remains the leading cause of death in combat, and the literature suggests that tourniquetable hemorrhage is the second leading cause of preventable death, behind non- tourniquetable hemorrhage. Currently, most Western armed forces recommend the use of the tactical tourniquet in combat for the management of tourniquetable hemorrhage. The SOFTT® tourniquet (Tactical Medical Solutions, Anderson) is the tactical tourniquet currently in use by the French armed forces. As the contract will soon come to an end, the question of its renewal arises. The purpose of this study is to compare 4 commercially available tactical tourniquets in healthy volunteers. The hypothesis of the research is that one of the 4 tourniquets compared is faster to set up than the others.

Conditions

• Hemorrhage

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Tactical tourniquet set up	The tactical tourniquet will be set up to the upper limb and the lower limb during a maximum of 2 minutes.
DIAGNOSTIC_TEST	Medical ultrasound	The efficacy of tactical tourniquet set up will be assessed by medical ultrasound.
OTHER	Questionnaire	The participants will have to fill a questionnaire assessing pain (for the "receiver"), ease of use, stability and rusticity (for the "fitter").

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-05-28
• Primary completion: 2021-06-14
• Completion: 2021-06-14
• First posted: 2021-05-04
• Last updated: 2021-07-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France