Why do you need medical skills and tools?

[cofi]

Yeah I am not talking about the guy in the video, as Dingle said, it is to demonstrate how quickly you can die, more importantly how quickly you can no longer help yourself due to lack of oxygen secondary to massive blood loss. It does not matter how it happens the wound pattern from a 5.56, .308, or 9mm is the same in Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, or Colorado. Stay Safe.

so would a quickly applied tourniqite saved that guy or was that going to be fatal no matter what?

[cmailliard]

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.