Originally Posted by zonatandem
Best thing I've always carried is a bandana. Got to use it as a tourniquet on someone who had crashed, at full speed going into a curve, into and over a guard rail.
Yikes!
Too many John Wayne movies there, big feller.
If someone gets an injury to an extremity and starts bleeding, apply direct pressure to the artery rather than use a tourniquet. Ya use a tournequet when you think you have to sacrifice a limb in order to save a life.
but the bandana would help you to apply the compression....