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  • Do you have a Tourniquet?


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    Glenn B

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    I wear a belt thus carry a tourniquet. Tourniquets are easily fabricated form other things. When at the range, or in my car, I also carry anti-coagulant in my first aid kit. I'll have to check if there is still a tourniquet in there, used to have one but emptied it all out when a bottle of Providone iodine leaked. Do not recall if I replaced that one or not.
     

    candcallen

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    I I also carry anti-coagulant in my first aid kit.

    Forgive my necroish posting but....

    Why would you use a blood thinner to stop bleeding?













    I'm sure you meant something other than anticoagulant. Quick clot or celox, a hemostatic agent.
     
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    Gilbertc13

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    Carry a TQ in my back pocket, range bag, and car. Before people started freaking out, I seldom carried it. Now seeing how some people act and everyone being on edge, I have been carrying it daily. Also have 1 on my duty belt along with a pocket trauma kit for GSWs in other spots on the body


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    Glenn B

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    Forgive my necroish posting but....

    Why would you use a blood thinner to stop bleeding?













    I'm sure you meant something other than anticoagulant. Quick clot or celox, a hemostatic agent.
    Your right, I don't carry a an anti-coagulent but had a brain fart or was soused when I wrote that - I meant to say a coagulent. The stuff in the photo below.

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    After I saw that dude shoot himself in the leg at the range on YouTube a few years back, I decided to get some. A good thing to have in your first aid kit if alone at the range or out in the alone while hiking or woods hunting or anywhere.
     

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    candcallen

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    Yes a belt is better than nothing.

    A TQ can apply more pressure over a smaller area, think surgical clamp. Very important when vessels retract up the limb. A belt has a hard time getting high enough and applying the pressure in the right spot in such instances.
     
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