If elevation and direct pressure do not control bleeding, and especially if you observe bright red blood spurting from the wound indicating an arterial bleed, it is time to place a tourniquet.

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But even hazy from the medication, he noticed when they put a tourniquet on his leg. “I was aware that both the military and the civilian sectors discouraged tourniquet use,” Butler told Task ...

Buchberger thought the boy cut an artery. After the tourniquet was on, the boy was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. The child’s grandfather stopped by the Pataskala Division of Police the ...

Numerous Rusk County sheriff’s deputies were recognized last week for life-saving measures they rendered in the line of duty.

The anterior tibial artery is located in the lower leg, running from the popliteal fossa just behind the knee down along the tibia and fibula, the major bones of the lower leg. It is a branch of the ...

A first-year officer has been praised for using his own tourniquet to help a colleague who had been shot as the union calls ...

A PaO2 test measures partial pressure of oxygen, or PaO2—the oxygen pressure in arterial blood. The PaO2 reflects how well oxygen is able to move from the lungs to the blood. It is often altered by ...

“Paramedics placed a tourniquet and provided pain management and sedation prior to removing the patient,” the post says. " Menomonie Fire Department’s Ladder Truck was used so firefighters ...