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3 WAYS TO CONTROL SEVERE BLEEDING

TOURNIQUETS
WHEN: WHERE: HOW:
• For life-threatening • Extremities only • Apply as quickly as arms
bleeding only • Apply a tourniquet as possible
high and tight as • Turn the windless rod
possible until bright red bleeding legs
stops

WOUND PACKING
WHEN: WHERE: HOW:
• Someone has severe • High in shoulders (front • Pack gauze into the high in X
bleeding on a part of the and back), pelvic region wound shoulders
body where you can't and buttocks • Keep packing until the
place a tourniquet • NEVER pack a wound in wound is filled, and the pelvic
the abdomen bleeding has slowed region
• If you don't have wound buttocks
packing gauze, use any
absorbent material

CHEST SEALS
WHEN: WHERE: HOW:
• There is an open wound • Between the collar bone • Apply adhesive side
allowing air to enter the and belly button of seal to the open wound
lung area (includes abdomen) between the
• Seal off the hole to
• If there is both an prevent air from collar bone
entrance and an exit entering the lung area and the
wound, a chest seal should • If a chest seal is not belly button
be applied in both places available, use anything
that's impermeable
(trash bag, rubber
gloves, sandwich bag, etc.)