Tourniquets are bands that you tie tightly around a bleeding wound on an arm or leg to apply pressure and slow down blood loss. Here are the steps for correctly applying one. You may need a tourniquet ...

Under House Bill 496, a Texas law that went into effect on Jan. 1, 2020, stop-the-bleed kits are required in public schools and teachers must have training. But there are useful tools inside each kit ...

Following the mass shooting that killed 11 people in Monterey Park on Jan. 21, a local hospital is hoping to save lives by teaching people how to help those with traumatic injuries. In a demonstration ...

Police in Northwest Indiana have saved more than 100 people since a training program began five years ago designed to teach them how to use a tourniquet to save themselves or their fellow officers if ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - A gunshot victim in Baton Rouge has a chance at recovery, thanks to the fast thinking of a few Baton Rouge Police officers. They used a tourniquet to help stop life ...

A car crash, a hunting accident, and a mass shooting are just a few of the situations where a tourniquet can save lives. Tourniquets are used to stop the bleeding caused by a traumatic injury to an ...

Since 2020, Texas law has mandated that schools offer students as young as seventh graders lessons in "battlefield trauma care," where children learn how to apply tourniquets and chest seals in class.

Baraboo police used a tourniquet to stop the bleeding Sunday after a man cut his arm on shards of glass from a broken window. Chief Mark Schauf said in a news release that police were notified that ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Following the mass shooting that killed 11 ...