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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 660470" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>A couple of corrections here.</p><p> </p><p>You apply a tourniquet only as a last resort, or to control the bleeding while you apply clotting agents and pressure dressings unless you have no other means to save someone's life. You tighten it only to the point at which bleeding stops, no more to avoid cutting off blood flow completely an causing the loss of the limb.</p><p> </p><p>If you leave a tight tourniquet on longer than 1 hour, you are going to lose the limb period unless you have not tightened it sufficiently.</p><p> </p><p>In transport the tournequet should be loosed slightly, just enough to be sure there is a little blood flow for one out of each five minutes to avoid tissue death.</p><p> </p><p>I'm not sure where you are getting your information from but it is not accurate. You cut off the blood flow and the limb dies.</p><p> </p><p>Also, you place it on a pressure point between the wound and the body(Google "Pressure points blood flow") closest to the wound so as to reduce the amount of tissue that may be compromised.</p><p> </p><p>Dead is dead whether it's a finger, arm, leg, or person, and cutting off blood flow for any significant amount of time gurantees death.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.armystudyguide.com/content/army_board_study_guide_topics/First_Aid/tourniquets.shtml" target="_blank">Tourniquets (ArmyStudyGuide.com)</a></p><p> </p><p>Not trying to jump on you here but you have got to be extremely careful about applying a tourniquet or you can easily end up doing far more harm than good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 660470, member: 30902"] A couple of corrections here. You apply a tourniquet only as a last resort, or to control the bleeding while you apply clotting agents and pressure dressings unless you have no other means to save someone's life. You tighten it only to the point at which bleeding stops, no more to avoid cutting off blood flow completely an causing the loss of the limb. If you leave a tight tourniquet on longer than 1 hour, you are going to lose the limb period unless you have not tightened it sufficiently. In transport the tournequet should be loosed slightly, just enough to be sure there is a little blood flow for one out of each five minutes to avoid tissue death. I'm not sure where you are getting your information from but it is not accurate. You cut off the blood flow and the limb dies. Also, you place it on a pressure point between the wound and the body(Google "Pressure points blood flow") closest to the wound so as to reduce the amount of tissue that may be compromised. Dead is dead whether it's a finger, arm, leg, or person, and cutting off blood flow for any significant amount of time gurantees death. [url=http://www.armystudyguide.com/content/army_board_study_guide_topics/First_Aid/tourniquets.shtml]Tourniquets (ArmyStudyGuide.com)[/url] Not trying to jump on you here but you have got to be extremely careful about applying a tourniquet or you can easily end up doing far more harm than good. [/QUOTE]
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