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. 2023 Nov 20;95(6):e54–e60. doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000004134

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Illustrations of life threatening bleeding, clockwise from top left. (1) Pulsatile or steady bleeding from the limb wound. (2) Blood is pooling on the ground. (3) The overlying clothes are soaked in blood. (4) Bandages or makeshift bandages used to cover the wound are ineffective and steadily becoming soaked with blood. (5) Traumatic extremity amputation. (6) There was prior extremity bleeding and the patient is now in shock (unconscious, confused, pale). Reproduced with permission from the from the American College of Surgeons STOP THE BLEED® program.