Originally Posted By: hikermor
Have any of us needed to apply a tourniquet to an injury after direct pressure didn't work, outside of a battlefield situation? I am curious, because of the few hundred SAR incidents I have been involved in, we have never applied a T. I can understand that battlefield injuries are a different situation, but I suspect that most civilian situations are easier to control. Direct pressure has always done the job in my experience.


Here's a stateside civilian example of why it may be wise to have a good tourniquet and the training to use it. Note the blood on the sidewalk; early reports say "I saw people's legs blown off".

Double Explosion at Boston Marathon