Should You Carry a Tourniquet?

Most people aren’t ready for severe bleeding. Here’s how you can be.

Most people don’t think about bleeding until they see it. They don’t think about how fast someone can lose consciousness.

They don’t think about how long it takes for an ambulance to arrive. They don’t think about how often accidents happen in normal places, doing normal things.

Then it hits them one day.

• A wreck.

• A shop accident.

• A gunshot.

• A chainsaw slip.

• A fall onto something sharp.

• A bad crash on a rural road where help is twenty minutes out.

Severe bleeding is one of those problems that gives you almost no time to fix it. If you don’t deal with it right away, there’s not much anyone else can do.

That’s why the real question isn’t “Should I carry a tourniquet?”

The real question is:

“Why wouldn’t you?”