What if the bleeding just won’t stop?
Even the most severe and profuse bleeding can almost always be stopped by direct, continued pressure. If the bleeding does not abate, you are probably not pressing in the right place, so shift your pressing fingers until you hit or. the right spot. Several minutes of this firm pressure should be enough to control the bleeding sufficiently for a thick, firm dressing (a makeshift one if need be) to be applied. If bleeding still continues as profusely as even when you take your fingers away, you must just keep on pressing until you can get the casualty to the hospital.
Shouldn’t I use a tourniquet?
No. A tourniquet, if wrongly applied, can be extremely dangerous and cause more harm than the injury itself. A tourniquet, or constrictive bandage, stops bleeding by cutting off the blood supply to an injured arm or leg, but if it is put on too tightly and not loosened often enough, it may cause the entire limb to die. A tourniquet should therefore never be used except by a trained person, and even then, is rarely necessary. Applying direct pressure on to the wound by fingers or hand is usually just as effective and far safer.
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