Upper Extremity Laceration
A driver stopped for a man bleeding at the roadside in San Antonio and applied the ETQ Wide he keeps in his truck.
- Applied by Civilian
- Worked as expected
- Survived
Reported source material
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I was driving around town in San Antonio running errands when I saw a man on the side of the road bleeding badly, with a few people around him. I could tell they were trying to help but didn't have much medical equipment. I carry an ETQ every day, as well as an ETQ Wide and a trauma kit in my truck. The man had a large laceration on his lower arm that had caught an artery and was pulsating blood. I grabbed the ETQ Wide from my truck, put on gloves, and applied it to his arm above the laceration. I tightened it and cranked the windlass. The woman next to me called 911 and EMTs arrived a couple minutes later. They loaded him and took him away, saying we did a good job.
The source lists the applicator as "Bystander", which is not one of the document's own applicator codes. Mapped to CIV.
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Snakestaff Systems commentary
Our own analysis of this case.
The important part of this case is that the bystander had bleeding-control equipment available when an unexpected emergency happened. The ETQ Wide was applied before EMS arrived and was reported to have controlled the arterial bleeding.