Quote Originally Posted by DingleBerns View Post
We just had a medical class for work where we trained with tourniquets (applying them) with live fire.

The "Golden hour" is the key to survival. One hour after being shot and tourniquet is applied you should be in surgery to increase chances of survival. Beyond that, it's not a good day...
No such thing anymore. Survivability is more dependent on where the wound is, severity of the wound(s), amount of blood lost, etc... Nowhere in trauma medicine is there a "1 hr" survivability time line for extremities. Obviously the quicker you can get to definitive medical care the better the probable outcome, and getting shot anywhere is already not a good day.