The Dart gives providers at any skill level the confidence and capability to perform reliable chest decompression and improve outcomes for casualties with a tension pneumothorax, the third leading ...

For trauma patients who require emergent chest decompression, prehospital needle decompression (PHND) was associated with a lower risk of mortality compared with tube thoracostomy, a cohort study ...

For more than seven decades, the U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research at Fort Sam Houston, Texas has conducted research to save lives on the battlefield. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have ...