Originally Posted By: Glock-A-Roo
Originally Posted By: Frisket
The fact that it can be used to make multiple tourniquets for its size and weight sells me on it alone personally.

Have you researched this? Be careful that your tourniquet fully stops arterial flow. If it stops venous flow and not all arterial flow, you will bleed out faster than if you had not applied the tourniquet.

I'm no expert, but when I took my Wilderness First Aid course a few years back the instructor basically said don't use tourniquets period.

My understanding is this is the direction civilian emergency medicine has gone, with the military only still actively recommending / training / using the technique.
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