Healthline

A Quick Guide for How to Use a Tourniquet

Tourniquets are bands that you tie tightly around a bleeding wound on an arm or leg to apply pressure and slow down blood loss. Here are the steps for correctly applying one. You may need a tourniquet ...
Firehouse

Jeff Riechmann explains why knowing where a law enforcement officer carries their tourniquet can be a lifesaver at an active shooter incident.

All first responders are brothers and sisters. It doesn’t matter if you are a law enforcement officer, an EMT or a firefighter, we are all brothers and sisters. As brothers and sisters, we have the ...
KEYT

‘So gnarly’: Surfer bit by shark uses leash to make tourniquet, drives to hospital

VOLUSIA COUNTY, Florida (WESH) — One Edgewater man has spent decades riding the waves. He’s helped many people out of the water after a shark bite, but this time it was him. As owner of the Gnarly ...