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Old 10-17-2009   #2 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by IndyBeerman View Post
What about in a serious situation where you happen across a car accident with multiple victims and tourniquet will not work on a large puncture wound to the torso and at that point you either have to play god and pick one to die, or administer the QC to one and attend to the other?
Ambulances do not use this, and none of the ER's that I know of do either (In Marion County). If you use this on the street as a civilian, you are pushing the lines of negligence and possibly not covered by the Good Samaritan Act.

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