Philadelphia police lieutenant Robert Friel shows where a colleague placed a tourniquet on his left leg, allowing him to survive a bullet that shattered his thighbone and severed his femoral artery.

Why the tourniquet, a relic from the early days of medicine, is back amid the gun violence epidemic

By the way blood was gushing from the bullet wound, Lieutenant Robert Friel knew he wasn’t for long. He collapsed on the floor of CVS on South 10th Street, unable to move his leg. Friel had never been shot before, but after 28 years with the Philadelphia police, he knew enough to realize the bullet …

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