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On a completely unrelated note, I took a course last week on how to stop severe bleeding. I've never taken any kind of first aid course and it was being offered for free at the local rec center, so I figured I'd show up. I've always wondered what to do if I ever happened upon someone injured and bleeding.
They started the course by talking about how to put latex gloves on and off, and then started talking about the attributes of different types of gauze and tourniquets. I don't carry gloves, gauze, and tourniquets, and apparently lots of others are like me, because someone else asked about what we do if we don't have that equipment. The instructor said he wasn't allowed to talk about doing it without proper equipment.
Really? This was a community course.
I did get some insights, though. I learned that I can stuff a shirt into a wound if I have to, and I learned that a tourniquet needs to be at least one inch wide or you can't get it tight enough without essentially tightening it through someone's arm.
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