As the title mentions, don’t tourniquets just stop the blood completely, or do they direct the blood to where they should go?
Also, how does it work in the case of amputations?
These may be stupid questions…
In: Biology
Think of it as a rim of a wheel. From the centre(heart) blood goes to organs through the spokes and comes back to the centre through other spokes. If you apply a tourniquet you block some spokes only. The others aren’t affected.
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