Good share.

I've said it before but I'll say it again: Training. Without training the wound they describe could easily have caused a fatality, especially as far as they were from definitive medical care. With training, it turned into a lessons learned situation.

My training, apparently, is somewhat different from the treatment they described, as I would have had and used a hemostatic bandage to pack the wound before applying the compression bandage. Also, compression bandages give better compression if knots are tied directly above the wound rather than on the opposite side. That may not have been possible for that particular wound and bandage however.

Once you are trained have the gear on you. Sometimes having the gear in the car is just too darn far away.