Fig. 1
From: Tourniquet self-application assessment in cold weather conditions
Easiness mean values for ET self-application on an upper non-dominant extremity (OHT) and lower dominant extremity (THT) for the different devices tested. (ET: Extremity Tourniquet, OHT: One-handed technique, THT: Two-handed technique, OMNA: OMNA Marine Tourniquet, Rapid Application Tourniquet Gen − 2, CAT: Combat Application Tourniquet Gen − 7, RMT: Ratcheting Medical Tourniquet, SWAT-T: Stretch-Wrap-And-Tuck Tourniquet). One-handed ease of self-application with CAT, RATS and OMNA is statistically better than with RMT and SWAT (repeated measures ANOVA with Bonferroni post hoc comparison, p < 0.01). In the two-handed self-application, all show to be statistically easier to place than SWAT (p < 0.001)