Assessing Firefighters' Tourniquet Skill Attainment and Retention: A Controlled Simulation-Based Experiment.
Erik DragsetSigurd BlixJørgen MelauThomas WilsonInger Lund-KordahlPublished in: Disaster medicine and public health preparedness (2023)
A sample of firefighters can successfully apply a tourniquet after a 45-min course based on the 2019 Norwegian recommendation for civil prehospital tourniquet use. Skill retention after 3 mo was satisfactory for both successful application and application time.