Compression Works LLC

In the News…

• AAJT approved for 4 hours of use - 6 January 2014
• AAJT utilizes lower tissue pressures than other junctional devices - 14 December 2013
• AAJT cleared by FDA for new indications and placement - 10 December 2013
• Owens & Minor orders large stocking order for NSN System - 14 November 2013
• Spanish Military orders AAT - 13 November 2013
• AAT evaluated by Japanese Ground Defense Forces - 11 November 2013
• The AAT is available on GSA Schedule 84 (GS-07F-016BA) - November 1st, 2013
• The AAT receives NSN: 6515-01-616-4999
• First Civilian save: June 2013
• First Military save: April 2013
• AAT Fielded to Afghanistan by US Special Operations Forces (June 2012)
• AAT receives CE mark in EU (10 May 2012)
• AAT receives FDA Clearance (11 Oct 2011)

Case Reports

• Military Use: Afghanistan Abdominal Aortic Placement
• Civilian Use: Upper Junctional Hemorrhage

Articles [print and online]

• Army Times article on the AAT (9/30/13)
• Follow-up Article by Popular Science on the AAT
• Tallahassee Magazine article, January 2013
• AAT Selected for an Invention Award by Popular Science. Read the article here.

• GSHU Press Release
• Physicians Develop Device to Stop Lethal Bleeding in soldiers
• Military Abdominal Aortic Tourniquet
• An Inflatable Tourniquet to Slow Abdominal Bleeding in Soldiers
• Birmingham and Georgia physicians invent new tourniquet for the battlefield
• Doctor creates tourniquet that could save lives