MedicHooah

Why not use a tourniquet? I understand there are ideas that it make cause tissue damage. But it's going to be a lot more effective than holding proximal pressure.

See that's something I don't get with Civilian Emergency Medicine. You can have tourniquet on for up too 4 hours before muscle death really starts setting in and becoming a problem. Now that would be a problem for a rural EMS for sure and I could see deferring the use of an TQ then. But any suburban or urban department shouldn't have that long a wait for higher care. I'm not critizing you by any means. More so the Civilian Protocols. Props for improvising with the BP cuff tho.

As far as active military, military Commanders a privy to a certain amount of HIPAA protected information. Mostly in regards to how it effects deployability and mission readiness. And to a certain degree they can divulge what they deem necessary to a soldiers chain of command and NCO support channel.

This is the only thing that bothers me. Same over here in the US, women should have to be conscripted if men do. We almost had it so that men and women both had to sign up for the draft. But last minute push back killed it.