Ill. officer praised for use of tourniquet in gunshot incident

By Bob Seidenberg Pioneer Press Newspapers EVANSTON, Ill. — Since January, Evanston on-duty police officers have been required to carry a tourniquet as part of their uniform. That extra item proved especially critical in a call last month in which an Evanston police officer applied a tourniquet to help save a gunshot victim, who otherwise might have bled to death, the department said in a release …
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Ill. officer praised for use of tourniquet in gunshot incident