Quote Originally Posted by cofi View Post
so would a quickly applied tourniqite saved that guy or was that going to be fatal no matter what?
Hard to tell but with two shots fired and bleeding from the arm and leg with the fatal wound most likely being the leg, yes a quickly applied TQ most likely would have saved a life. When we look at the three leading causes of Preventable Deaths on Battlefield, Extremity Hemorrhage is #1, this is the reason why. This is why the 180 degree shift in thinking about tourniquets, that $30 piece of velcro and plastic is saving more lives on the battlefield than almost anything else. It does not have to be a GSW though, it can be a knife or other form of penetrating trauma that cuts the artery.