03/01/2026
Tourniquet was NOT appropriate in this scenario.
Fortunately it was ineffective & was only on for 10 minutes.
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RTI - Patong
Passers by applied a make shift tourniquet to a wound that did not require such treatment.
A tourniquet is by design to stop uncontrollable bleeding (normally an arterial bleed)
This would DID NOT CONSTITUTE AN UNCONTROLLABLE BLEED.
This could leave the persons open to lawsuits.
Fortunately the tourniquet they made was fairly pointless & luckily inaffective.
Patient taken to hospital for treatment