In late 2003, Special Operations Forces requested that Cybertech Medical (a leading orthotics and trauma products supplier for hospitals and EMS) appease the urgent need for a new-generation, 1-hand tourniquet with requirements including easy application and operation by one-hand, application and occlusion in less than a minute, applicable to trapped limbs, no external power, quick release and reset, weigh less than 230 grams, and have a 10 year shelf-life. Whew! Laguna Beach, CA collaborator Ewing Design Group, headed by Steve Ewing, and Cybertech delivered the Mechanical Advantage Tourniquet (MAT), proving to be successful in significantly preventing tissue damage and loss of limbs. After rigorous testing, MAT was heralded as the fastest, easiest-to-use, most efficient and most preferred device in stopping critical blood loss and saving lives and limbs, and overall, the best performing tourniquet tested by the Army, Navy, and Marines. In this day and age, there are boatloads of casualties in need of such a well-worked design, boosting chances of survival and sustaining quality of life. MAT has deservedly scored Gold for Medical and Scientific Products in this year's IDEA awards.

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Date Posted: July 20, 2006
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