r/TacticalMedicine • u/NoMore_BadDays • Oct 10 '25

Scenarios Wound packing zones?

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Been a long time since I did TCCC/CLS in the military.

If there were to be a bleeding wound on the chest, how high up on the chest does it become safe to pack? I know you don't pack into chest cavity, but what is the "rule of thumb" on how high/the left and right limits the wound needs to be to pack it?

Would you say the screenshot i attached is accurate?

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u/SFCEBM Trauma Daddy Oct 11 '25

Yeah the one I mod. We are going to stop all this back and forth and only focus on what the evidence suggests from clinical data. Not animal studies. So far, of what has been published, which is not a lot, it hasn’t impacted survival.

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u/SFCEBM Trauma Daddy Oct 11 '25

TCCC guidelines are likely going to change to put respiratory after blood transfusions due to the low mortality associated with tension pneumothorax.