If you cannot stop severe bleeding with pressure and cannot use a tourniquet (groin, axilla, neck, face and/or scalp), you should consider:

a. putting your gloved finger in the wound
b. packing the wound with a hemostatic agent
c. rapid transportation and no more dressings
d. helicopter evacuation to a trauma center

B

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