For years , one of the most preventable causes of death in non-fatally wounded people has been the inability to quickly and effectively stop bleeding . Military doctors Nolan Shipman and Charles S. Lessard write in '' Military Medicine '' journal that " t he first step in containing seriously wounded casualties is to control the hemorrhage as much as possible . " In the era preceding Operation Enduring Freedom ( OEF ) and Operation Iraqi Freedom ( OIF ) , US military medics would take wounded soldiers from battlefields to hospitals for treatment . This often resulted in prolonged and irreversible loss of blood . Today , the tactic of caring for wounded soldiers has changed and the wounds are treated in the battlefield . The Israeli Bandage , which can be applied with only one hand , successfully stops bleeding and has been used by the armies of the United States , Germany , Australia , New Zealand , and other countries . David Kleinman , a SWAT team medic who devised a first aid kit used to treat victims of the 2011 Tucson shooting , said that " deputies reached for the Emergency Bandage ' over and over at the scene ' " of the shooting
2011 Tucson shooting
2011 Tucson shooting
Emergency Bandage