tourniquet

For example, you might have a gunshot wound and are trying to make a tourniquet while you type.

This would cut off blood flow and inhibit performance if you had a loosely tied tourniquet on it.

It's like treating heavy bleeding by applying a tourniquet and sending the patient out the door.

For the same reason that a tourniquet is not a long-term solution to a severed artery.

Yoshio is a professional and very skilled, but he hasn't won a major tourniquet since 1989.

I know how to fire a gun, tie a tourniquet, extinguish a structure fire, and set aside an emergency fund.

Lastly, even if the situation were dire enough to warrant these measures, where would you place the tourniquet on the limb?

-After a tourniquet is properly placed, the arterial flow is halted.

It might assist in the case of an inappropriately applied tourniquet.-Hemostasis of an abdominal wound.

Evacuate your brain of blood, and it can't do that; as deaths go, this one would probably be faster than a neck tourniquet, but slower than the .50 BMG to the head I mentioned elsewhere in this thread.

The single best way to halt life-threatening hemorrhage in an extremity is a tourniquet, and the only thing that halts thorax hemorrhage is a surgeons finger.

For example, I dont know about your unit but in mine, anything on us gets beaten up a lot for various reasons; damage to the tourniquet would be likely and problematic.

For example, the tourniquet was in the left side because the left was more difficult to access in prone because we cant remove our right hands from the gun and we need the left elbow for stability.

You could take, for instance, ICS straight from Google, but that's missing all the breakage that gets added from the carriers and phone manufacturers...you basically have to await the screams, then apply the tourniquet.

Trauma teams have learned from military and orthopedic surgeons that tourniquets are much safer than traditionally understood.

Drifting off on your carefully-tagged tangent: Basic medical procedures like CPR, the Heimlich Maneuver, using an epipen, applying a tourniquet, etc. ?

Where are the architectural choke points to apply the tourniquet to allow for later expansion?Aside from being an expert in abstraction, domain knowledge is also a key component to make these decisions.

If you are in a situation where you absolutely need to move quickly, a direct pressure solution to slow the bleeding until you are in a relatively safe area where you can then apply a tourniquet is better.

Expecting these medics to accurately diagnosis these injuries under heavy stress and not sacrifice time that should be spent on proven therapies like blood administration, tourniquet placement, warm blankets, etc. seems unwise to me.