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Tourniquet Use

LoneRider

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The New Guidelines are: Direct Pressure and then Tourniquet. My 'guess' is that in 10 more years, we'll go back to: Direct Pressure, Elevation, Pressure Point and THEN Tourniquet. This has been an on again off again thing for many years.

By the way... The latest feedback on the use of Tourniquets in the Civilian World is based on the success with them out in the Sandbox.

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That's more or less what I'd imagined but I figured I'd ask actual practicioners vice making wrong assumptions.

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...I'm curious as to what EMS doctrine (at levels ranging from the first responder, EMT-B and EMT-Paramedic), so to speak, is regarding tourniquets? The last thing I recall was that tourniquets were viewed as last resort measures when it came to first aid. Admittedly the reference I got that from was a lecture given to me as a student at the National Outdoor Leadership School in Lander, WY in 2005 and shipboard damage control training from 2006-2008 timeframe when I served in the US Navy before I transitioned to the US Army in 2009.

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