Publications

A military medic with combat experience in the south and east of Ukraine shares her impressions of using the Revul hemostatic bandage. She tells about the advantages, why it is not inferior to alternatives and compares the effectiveness of local hemostatic agents based on chitosan and kaolin.

We share with you feedback on the use of the Revul hemostatic bandage from the Chief Surgeon of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Colonel of the Medical Service, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Associate Professor Kostyantyn Gumenyuk.

Below is the feedback we received on the Revul bandage from the Head of the Medical Resources Planning Service of the Military Medical Department of the Main Directorate of the National Guard of Ukraine, lieutenant colonel of the medical service Svitlana Dyachuk.

We are glad to announce that Revul hemostatic dressing material, produced by the pharmaceutical corporation Yuria-Pharm (Ukraine), is back in stock. The bandage can already be found in pharmacies using medical price aggregators: tabletki.ua, medbrowse.com.ua.

The article analyzes the evidence and disputed points in the algorithm of the temporary bleeding stop in the prehospital phase using modern tourniquets. The paper provides a brief description of Combat Application Tourniquet, SWAT-Tourniquet as the most common ones. Both the immediate survival of victims in extreme conditions and the quality of later life due to the minimization of post-tourniquet complications (tourniquet syndrome, peripheral neuralgia, limb frostbite in the cold season) depend on the knowledge of the staff of emergency medical teams about the modern tourniquets (Combat Application Tourniquet, Special Operations Forces Tactical Tourniquet, Mechanical Advantage Tourniquet, Ratcheting Medical Tourniquet, SWAT-Tourniquet).