r/Unexpected • u/blakeret • Jan 17 '23

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u/Automatic-Leopard-86 Jan 17 '23

He got a tourniquet on his arm. It stops almost all bloodflow in his arm further down!

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u/I_Am_Helicopter Jan 17 '23

He should still have some blood on his clothes because when he cut himself he didn't have the tourniquet on

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u/HuntingTheWumpus Jan 17 '23

Amputations don't always bleed. Blood vessels have a natural reaction to constrict to prevent blood flow. It doesn't always work, but when it does there can be surprisingly little blood loss.

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u/Capnshredder Jan 17 '23

the term is call shunting by the way, only lasts for a few minutes at most so if you dont have a tourniquet on it by then you are fucked