Maybe so - let's be grateful for what battlefield medicine has taught us though, its hard experience that doesn't get thrown away. I grew up living next to a vascular surgeon who served in Vietnam, and he came back to the life with new treatments that left several generations of military and civilians walking on two feet or keeping their hands intact. Literally hundreds of thousands of grateful trauma patients. I have never used a HemCon bandage, but the 'revelation' that tourniquets are not a dead-end treatment in every scenario caused me to get the necessary training, rethink when I would apply one, and to actually go out and purchase a decent tourniquet, just in case.