1st Lt. Caitlin Totman, 99th Inpatient Operations Squadron registered nurse, demonstrates how to properly use a tourniquet at Mike O’Callaghan Medical Center on Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, June 22, 2018. The course stresses the mechanisms of the body and how bleeding can be drastically decreased by focusing on the three main methods of hemorrhage control: compression, tourniquet use and wound packing.

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