The point is we ARE talking pre-hospital, not an OR with multiple people managing a specific lane not to mention being able to ligate an artery or cross clamp a bleeder.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17411448
We use surgical tampons everyday in our OR.. See.. we cut off your gauze you apply in the field in the OR... then debrde the wound or wound channel. If we have to do an Exploratory Laparotomy we use surgical tampons to provide hemostasis.
Surgical Tamponades are vital and used in virtually every case from ENT, Oral Surgical cases, thru Thoracic, Cardiac, Abdominal, and even Orthopedic rooms.
Please don’t base your assumption on the value of a tampon prehospital, when a variant of these are used everyday in every OR in the world.
Here’s the definition of Tamponade...
tam·pon·ade
/ˌtampəˈnād/
noun
MEDICINE
33 years in Medicine here... Several State Medical Licensures here...
- 1.
compression of the heart by an accumulation of fluid in the pericardial sac.- 2.
the surgical use of a plug of absorbent material.