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Naperville Fire Department implements new military-grade tourniquets

Summary by NCTV17
The Naperville Fire Department has added a new life-saving device to its ambulance arsenal. New tourniquet to stop bleeding in severe injuries Applied in under 25 seconds, the SAM junctional tourniquet is used for injuries near the armpit or pelvis, reaching arteries that a traditional tourniquet can’t reach. “We found that we had a gap in some of our traumatic injuries that we couldn’t traditionally stop the bleeding with a regular tourniquet,”…
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NCTV17 broke the news in on Thursday, April 2, 2026.
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