If the bleeding does not stop with direct pressure, put pressure on the artery that carries blood to the wound.
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Keep putting pressure on the wound until the bleeding stops or medical help arrives.
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That includes several people who arrived with legs attached by just a little skin, a 3-year-old boy with a head wound and bleeding on the brain, and a little girl riddled with nails.
Mr. Haggerty said he grabbed a belt from another person at the scene and fashioned a tourniquet for a woman who was bleeding heavily from a leg wound, and eventually got her into a wheelchair and pushed her away from the scene, past the finish line to the post-race medical tent.