Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Health and Science/First Aid, Standard/13/en
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Most civilian first aid instruction in the United States no longer teaches the use of the tourniquet for the following reasons:
- the effectiveness of direct pressure, elevation and pressure points (controlling severe bleeding in up to 90% of cases as estimated by US medical sources)
- the increased difficulty of reattaching an amputated limb when a tourniquet has been applied to the victim
- unnecessary use by poorly trained bystanders
- the unavoidable risks to both limb and life even when properly employed
- the rare nature of injuries that require tourniquets, which typically occur in unusual settings such as working with agricultural or industrial machinery and the battlefield
