3D-printed SOF-T-like tourniquet

Tourniquet de type SOF-T imprimé en 3D

⚠️ WRNING : We strongly ADVICE AGAINST using this tourniquet in the field until further tests have been done. ⚠️

1 - GliaX 3D-printed tourniquet

If you want an actual field-tested tourniquet, please go check out GliaX/tourniquet.

We will use a lot of their testing as comparison, and recommend using the same print settings as them. We also designed our strap and windlass in comparison to theirs : the strap must be as wide or wider, and the windlass must be as thick or thicker (as they had windlass failure in an earlier version, thus we knew it was a potential weak point).

Even though the GliaX tourniquet project is an amazing and fully developed project, we still thought that their could be place four our design, as we designed a tourniquet that requires some sawing, but way less than the GliaX design (as ours is design around the SOF-T design rather than the CAT design) ; with also less printed parts. We know our design makes application slightly slower than with a CAT-like tourniquet (like the GliaX tourniquet), but we estimate the difference to be marginal (less than 5 seconds), thus we believe the gain in cost and manufacturing could still make it a viable option in some context.

2 - Design of our tourniquet

This Readme will be written later.