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Question:

Your patient has a laceration to the right leg which has intersected the femoral artery. You have applied direct pressure to the wound, but it continues to soak through the bandages. What should you do next?

A Apply a tourniquet
explanation

If that fails, the next step would be to apply a tourniquet. When applying bandages you should not remove the old ones, just apply the new ones over the old ones.

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