Category: MARCH & Triage

The tourniquet is applied, the windlass is turned and secured. From the outside, everything looks correct — yet the bleeding continues, and a distal pulse can still be felt. This situation repeats itself constantly in training and in research, and its cause is usually the same: the mistake was made before the tightening even began. […]

The MARCH protocol colour coding system is widely used in military and tactical medicine to standardise casualty treatment priorities under stress.