when they shoot your friend through the back in the lungs, you can use 4 turniquets, so the limbs will look more lively in the open casket /s
On tourniquets, you need to make sure that there is nothing in the pockets, it should be perpendicular to the arm or leg and as high as possible. You need to put them in 30 seconds or less, in tacmed classes they give you a minute to put 4 of them (impossible).
Gauze is extremely hard to use, as in you need to push your fingers into a bullet hole while recipient screams and flails around, you’ll also need to learn a special technique that is required to push it correctly or you’ll just drop it on the ground.
You won’t be able to use anything he shows effectively without training, a lot of it, with additional training every few months.
also tourniquet in general is quite drastic tool and can lead (according to what i have read, no practical experience whatsoever), in extreme case, to a loss of a limb. so it should only be used when the risk outweighs the gain.
if the person is bleeding to death, i am sure they would rather lose a leg than die. if the injury can be treated with normal bandage, it should be preferable.
Yeah, this is why first aid courses, at least in Europe, do not recommend non-medical people to use those.
