Medical Monday - Proper Way To Apply A RATS Tourniquet 

Your responsibility to be ready for the fight NEVER ENDS.

Brian is a trooper, these things are not comfortable :)

At 1:22. The way you said that sounded exactly how James would say it. Glad to see you guys pushing forward and continuing to provide us with helpful info. Thank you.

R.I.P BROTHER JAMES THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME WITH SO MUCH AND MAKING ME BETTER AND MORE READY FOR THE FIGHT

Every medical kit that I own has both C.A.T and R.A.T. tourniquets. I carry a R.A.T. in my pocket every day. If you have children, grandchildren and pets try to put a C.A.T. on them. Great video!

He also failed to mention that he even does it during classes that don't involve a tourniquet as part of the curriculum... He and James also did demonstrations for us during Fighting Pistol 🙏

Great video. Lots of good points. Thank you for sharing your experience.

"3 little beautiful assholes..." Tell me you're Yeager's kid without telling me you're Yeager's kid 🤣😂

"You definitely don't have time to mess it up." Could of swore I heard a little James there. Brian taught me how to use these in person at Fighting Pistol last December. After that, I bought 6. Excellent TQ.

Thank you so much! I carry this every day because I have dogs and children. I LOVED your dad. He’s one of the main reasons I carry today. He’s the first Guntuber I ever watched! Thank you to him and the rest of the family for being supportive and allowing him to teach all of us. God bless you all. I live in Arizona and it’s my goal to come take a class at Tactical Response.

98% of the time when someone says the RATS doesn't work, they have never used one of they don't understand how to apply it properly. Most the people I see who say it doesn't work also do not demonstrate full occlusion with a windlass tourniquet in their videos. They always say there was a study that "proved" the RATS doesn't work, but there isn't a single video of a RATS not working with proper application.

the Medical Monday videos have been awesome! can y'all cover chest seal application sometime?

Keep up the great work wish your family well God bless

Thanks for your video.

God rest your dads soul... Thanks for taking over your fathers channel... God bless!!!

you either find time to do it right the first time or you'll find time to do it a second time.......and that second time may be to late for the person

R.I.P. James Thank you for all of your words of wisdom....

All Good!!!

I have friends with children so I’m sold! This is what I will have in the kit.

I am so happy that Blackscout Survival told me to subscribe to your channel. Enjoyed it and learned something that's great for this old Nana. Very sorry for your loss. Love,Nana

Still haven’t seen anyone dispute the argument that they don’t bottom out on kids. That’s the pro that outweighs the cons imo.

I still have the training tourniquet Brian gave me after showing us how to apply it before Fighting Pistol lecture. Was bonus knowledge for the weekend and greatly appreciated!

I’m glad the company and RU-vid channel is going on you guys are needed now more than ever

Loved the girls inch and a guys inch joke hilarious. Very informative on rat T i didn’t think it was that different. I have only used the sof T previously.

I need to get better at my medical first response/preparedness.

Great stuff! Love you guys.

I am super late to the Yeager party. And I apologize for that. But what an introduction! A simple how-to video, but very fun and entertaining. You two are great! Subscribed, and I will venture into the rabbit hole of material you have on your channel over the next few days. In I go!

Thanks for doing this vid. Much appreciated

I put these in my kit when I had kids based on Tactical Response’s recommendations

Thanks guys. Pulled my RATS out and trained with it for a little while after watching. Got the kids in on it to. Blessings

Caduceus is the word that you were looking for.

I carry a RATs daily. I’ve got them in my car and each of my family members have them on them at all times. My dad who has dementia also has one on him. Great and easy TQ to have. I do need to train with them more. Hopefully in the near future I’ll be taking a medical class at Tactical Response.

Thank you both for this demo. I’ve been lacking on my training with my rats for a bit now and happy I came across this video. Keep it up

"Girls inch or guys inch" - greatest thing I've heard hahahaha!!!!! Great video guys! Brian, I need to practice my suturing skills... lol

WOW, I just learned something new. I'm going to buy and add some RATS to my kits now.

Great video guys....

Thank you ❤️👍🇺🇲

Dammit hahahaha Brian’s face is priceless… thanks as always for the vids. Praying for Gods peace over ur family

Thank you to keep posting I started in guns because this channel

EXCELLENT demonstration! I believe most of the RATS tourniquet negativity comes from lack of training and user error. I fully agree with you guys. Y’all are doing a great job with the tactical response content! Keep up the great work!

Happy to see your channel covering this. Medical training is honestly more likely to be used then gun training because there's so many things in daily life that can go wrong. I'd love to see y'all do a video with Bear Independent and his company Refuge Medical.

Woman's inch or a man's inch.......that was the best line in the video! James lives on! Well done!

It is the TQ that works AND people will carry and have on them when they need it.

Great vid thank You

In my final for IAM I had to put 3 TQ’s on FPS Murdock in 45 secs with Jerry timing me. It was stressful as hell but absolutely doable and the 2 RATS I used were much faster then the Recon windless I used. Good times.

I am more likely to have a RATS TQ with me when it is needed. They are really small.

They have been around for YEARS how can people still question them. RATS are awesome! I have given them as Christmas gifts to lots of friends.

Brian's Killin that RAT🤣

Thanks for the video! Shame that people make things so difficult. Awesome job!

Lol I thought Brian was a cardboard cut out until he moved!! 🤣🤣

I have incorporated both the cats and the rats tourniquets in my kit.

Rofl I love the glare he is giving I carry one of these on me at all times I like that I can apply it on my own arm by myself thanks for the vid and God bless

It is common to stick med kits within the stocks of AKS74's, secured in the metal stocks by wrapping one around it so both are readily available. Also helps in below zero temps covering the bare metal of cheek weld

I dont understand that taking off thing. Why in one and only place?

Thanks for doing this! 👍

1. Condolences 2. Please notice the color change of the "victim's" palm and arm at pre-application of the Rats compared to before the Rats was removed. 3. Thank you.

If im bleeding to death... Ill just go ahead and do it hahahaha.

I seem to remember a holster for these things where it wrapper around the body with your belt and deployment was quick. Anyone recall that?

Il take nerve damage over blood loss any day

Better than nothin but I prefer the authentic CAT 7’s which is what I use on my kit. I also carry a couple SWAT-T’s in my IFAK just incase I need some more TQ’s

RIP James Yeager. He was more of a good influence on people and for the gun community than people will ever know....

My God the only people speaking about nerve damage have not been trained. That's a thing of the past. New EMS services are tournaquetting regardless of how long you'll have it on. And when you need a tourniquet, it's for bleeding that can't be controlled otherwise. So if it's not controlled by tourniquet, are you suppose to let them bleed out? I'm sorry you guys have to deal with idiots online every day, the majority of us respect and love the content you put out.

Girls inch or guys inch. Lmao i like that!

“The propper way to use a RATS” *throw it away and grab a CAT

I don't care what you put on me just save my damn life. Please

Thats like 4"

Constant tears about stuff that isn’t TCCC it’s ridiculous if it works it works. The same TCCC fanboys will also make a video using a tie and stick as a windlass (crisis medicine) lol

Nerve damage? Compartment syndrome!!! Secondly, if you’re applying a tourniquet it needs to be muscle memory. That snake is a caduce. I’m a paramedic and dying for your credentials.

I love the rats. Is it the best... no. However it's easy to edc and it can get small enough to even work on animals or God forbid little kids. A cat can't do that. I carry a mini ifak with a cat on it as well as a rat every day. Because trauma can be caused by anything. Not just a gun or a knife.

There’s a reason these aren’t recommended by CoTCCC

I heard go high or die

I think the CAT is great. That being said, I carry a lot of shit on my body and much prefer the compact nature of the RATS…I can carry two with no irritation whatsoever. More importantly, I absolutely know the RATS will work on all of my friends and family.

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4:00 Don't come out of the closet.

For all the of the CAT worshippers, one word: Rebleed

The proper way to apply a RATS tourniquet: Step 1: DON’T Step 2: (Refer to ‘Step 1’)

Excellent video. Thank you!

Great video. Now that I know how to use them, I'll ad some RATS to my kit.