Thread by @ChrisO_wiki

1/ Tourniquets issued to Russian soldiers as part of the standard first aid kit issued by the Russian Ministry of Defence are of such poor quality that they have been dubbed "a good way to die quickly". Soldiers are now being urged to replace them with almost anything else. ⬇️

2/ The 'Doctors, you are not alone' Telegram channel, which represents volunteers working to improve medical care on the Russian front lines, has issued an urgent appeal to soldiers and the MOD to get rid of the standard 'Svetlina' tourniquet, which has multiple problems.

3/ A video showing the tourniquet being tested shows it snapping when used. 'Doctors, you are not alone' has replicated the same problems through independent testing. It concludes, "this is not a combat tourniquet, but a complete mess," affecting all of them, not just one batch.

4/ "And if you were to pick words, then it's absolute crap. We haven't seen worse tourniquets for a long time, even cheap Chinese ones are usually better."

"The sum of the two videos:
😡 the buckle broke
😡 the strap broke
😡 the "horns" broke
😡 the marking strip has come off."

5/ The channel urges the MOD and the Russian National Guard to get rid of the tourniquets, identify who was responsible for approving their use, and publicly disclose the requirements for military acceptance of tourniquets.

6/ It also demands that the manufacturer recalls them all from sale and distribution, and to "Calculate how many tourniquets you have already installed for standard first aid kits, multiply by the probability of their use and understand how many people you have killed."

7/ 'Doctors, you are not alone' is not exaggerating about the impact of tourniquets on casualty figures. The head of the Kalashnikov Center for Tactical Medicine, Artem Katulin, says that a third of amputations during the war have been due to improper tourniquet application.

8/ Katulin says that more than half of of the Russian soldiers who have died in Ukraine lost their lives because of improperly provided medical care. Faulty equipment and reliance on ancient Soviet medical kits have clearly contributed to this. /end

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