Two articles I read in the Journal of Special Operations Medicine regarding tourniquets: don’t buy crap and only teach/train only on one type (windlass or ratcheting). Regarding the first: purchase only known good CAT-7 gear from the likes of NAR. Other cheaper ones were tested and failed1 – that means you can bleed out because you saved $7. Regarding the second, train and become proficient with one. Just one2.
Added a recipe for habañero hot sauce to the MyMini Cookbook page
Reader JL had a comment on the old Polaroid photo of parts of my first robot. “Oh, those wonderous times of those unknowns of life that thrilled us and helped quench the thirst of knowledge.” So very well said.
Reader RH offered the following link to augment Batteries, Part 1 for further edification: Best AA Batteries for 2023 and one of the things it covers is the trade-off between batteries designed for capacity vs. those designed for high power demands. You don’t get both. (Note I have not verified any of this and people can post anything they want on the Internet.3)
Final Words
Nietzsche wrote that the modern world is "suffering from the lack of any great love." We have ToDo lists but no MustDo Tasks. To live, you need more than ticking off the basics. To live well you need "a goal, a will, an ideal" - and the "passion of a great faith." - Jash Dholani on Twitter
JSOM Summer 2023 Vol. 23, Edition 2; Efficacy of the Military Tactical Emergency Tourniquet “…Despite identical appearance, look-alike tourniquets should not be assumed to be equivalent in quality or functionality to robustly tested tourniquets.”
JSOM Spring 2020, Vol. 20, Edition 1; Letter to the editor from Dr. Eileen Bulger, reprinted from JAMA Surgery
