First Aid for Splints & Bleeding Wounds : How to Use a Tourniquet

[mondo223]

In metropolitan areas, a tourniquet should not result in limb loss. You have a good window of an hour or more to get the patient to the hospital.

[ltm7575]

do you put it on or above the injury

[kodoman66]

@ltm7575 above. on does nothing

[STI800]

hallo marco

[gympar]

a ekstremity does not have to be amputadet if you put on a turniqet !!!! dont say things you dont anything about!!! it is dangerus. an ekstremity can live in 6 hours without blood after that it may have to be amputatet KNOW YOUR SUBJECT jezz

[abinjojo]

@gympar he isnt saying that is what is guranteed to happen, hes just saying that you should use it as an absolute last resort. he is right that you are likley to cause necrosis if it is on for long.

[gympar]

@abinjojo yeah i kinda knew that in denmark if you have it on more than six hours you have to get it durgicly removed by law

[darktim99]

a very much forgotten tool in first aid. SAVED many a life. i think its no longer widely practiced as you need to be VERY careful not to apply TOO much pressure. i once saw a guy clinb a telepgraph pole with two tourniquets. the grip is IMense!

[kenmaqs]

Tourniquet or Tourni-kay? i wonder why some people pronounce it as Tourni-kay.

[JoeDurobot]

@kenmaqs Because its a word of french origin and you dont pronuonce the final T in french.So either way are correct.

[kenmaqs]

@kenmaqs I see. Thanks Joe.

[zarnitintunzanyzack]

Best ifak list !!!!!

1. Quickclot 2

2. H and H gauze 2

3. Combat gauze or celox gauze 1

4. CAT tourniquet or SOFT tourniquet 1

5. Isreali bandage 2

6. Burn dressing 1

That's enough for the first aid kit.

You needa add more item like suture strip, tape, tincture swab etc for medical kits tho!!

[darktim99]

@zarnitintunzanyzack agreed. you been in the forces?

[zarnitintunzanyzack]

@darktim99 I've never been in the forces but Im into military/tactical medical kits and survivals kits. I am collecting all the goods of the US military now. For my Ifak , I dont use US Military issue ifak pack instead I used normal plastic bag to fit in my cargo pant pocket to take everywhere I go if I think I will need it.

[armymedic98]

@zarnitintunzanyzack really shouldnt use quick clot,my father(now a surgeon)tells me that it is very very hard to pull out all of the quick clot,but if thats the only thing you have in a emergency defintally use it,great list though

[logic8368]

I have only a plastic windlass type tournaquet in my first aid kit. Special forces use Metal windlass's idk why we only get plastic ones

[bobpopo23]

use celox geez hahaha

[ValorieJane]

all the information on tourniquets..is changing. It is NO LONGER a last resort...google army, and tourniquet..read some of the NEW information!! help get the word out...

[vickiormindyb]

If the NREMTP changed their rules from Direct pressure, tourniquet-bypassing indirect pressure-they must have just changed it this year.

This video was made in 2008, and he's still saying you can use indirect pressure before tourniquet.

Someone told me the National Registry changed the rules.

I would have lost my dominant hand if they were using those rules, b/c indirect pressure eventually worked.

I hate the thought that I would have lost my arm when it could have been saved.

[ValorieJane]

You can reperfuse the arm after use of a tourniquet....google tourniquet research out of iraq, and read some of the advancing coming out of there. Most of our protocol and education comes from war...read...and I am really glad you still have your arm!!

[vickiormindyb]

My brother, who's in the Army, seems to think of a tourniquet as a first line of defense.

He was in Iraq-and soon will be in Afghanistan. He was really vague about where he's going and what he's doing this time.

He took this "Warrior Leader" training and went up a level.

I was surprised he didn't know about SKEDCO, since an Army Medic in 82nd Division invented it.

[lilsurvivor96]

i think quickclot is WAY better than tourniquets. check out the video combat first aid kit. it tells about the first aid equipment in iraq.

[slasher667]

as said, a tourniquet is only to be used for severe bleeding as a last resort, if there is no other option, like if there is, according to the us army's manual of common tasks, an amputation, quick clots awesome and all, but it cant stop an amputation.

[247XPRESS]

I know a few people who could use tourniquets around their necks...dumbasses...

[lostorfound19]

i hear this works well for head akes!

[Zallomallo]

Lol

[AllesGehtGut]

It's like the man said, you have to use the tourniquet as a last resort. Soldiers in Iraq use tourniquets all the time. If you get a bullet wound in the leg, you have to use a tourniquet otherwise you are going to bleed to death in 10 to 20 minutes. Same thing for knife wounds to the leg and arm.

[lamarbrog]

.... A wound really should not require a tourniquet unless there are arterial bleeding. An injury to the arm or leg does not necessarily involve an artery. Blood should be being propelled from the injury, if a tourniquet is necessary. Arterial bleeding, and only if it cannot be stopped with elevation, direct pressure, and indirect pressure.

[hirshthg]

I just got first aid and cpr. They say that we no longer use the tourniquet. Do only paramedics use them, or are there other states that allow them?

[Akoufuyou91]

tourniquet is used only as the last resort not commonly used to stop bleeding. Don't use it !

[lamarbrog]

It is not illegal to use a tourniquet, they're allowed.

Because a tourniquet is so damaging, and won't even be effective if used improperly, it is seldom recommended in common first aid instruction. Inexperienced care givers could panic, and apply a tourniquet when it isn't needed. They could use it incorrectly, resulting in the person still bleeding out, when the other, simpler methods may have saved them if used properly.

It's easy to use it incorrectly or unnecessarily.