" They were very big on tourniquet's back then, they mention them all over the place,"...

IMO the thinking on tourniquets, lead by the military and combat use, is shifting back to more immediate and frequent use of them. I understand that every soldier in the field is advised to carry at least one tourniquet and medics carry half-dozen or more.

In the case of bleeding that is clearly more than insignificant the first move is often to save time by going directly to a tourniquet instead of slowly escalating the response from direct pressure to pressure points to tourniquet.

Starting with the tourniquet on the extremity saves time and allows the person to rapidly move on to the next wound or victim. The idea being that when the situation allows a tourniquet applied to a wound that doesn't require is easy to removed with little harm done as long as it is removed within a relatively short time. Replacing and correcting for blood loss is much more a problem.