From Medscape:
Currently, tourniquets on the market have failure rates as high as 84%. This became very real to me back in 2018, when I became aware of mass casualty incidents when I was a student. I became interested in how we can reimagine the conventional tourniquet and try to make it something that's very user-friendly, much like an automated external defibrillator (AED).
My team and I developed AutoTQ, which is an automated tourniquet. You press one button to wake it up and one button to inflate it. It guides you through the process of placing it above the site of bleeding on a limb, which is a leading cause of tourniquet failure and being able to effectively administer treatment to a patient that may bleed out.
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