Start with scope, then open the controlling source
- This page identifies where the document fits and connects it to related on-page material.
- The complete OCEMS document remains authoritative for exact requirements, exceptions, and clinical or administrative language.
- Check current OCEMS notices and agency direction before field use.
Document profile
- Document type
- Clinical procedure
- OCEMS code
- B-010
- Collection
- Procedures
- Source topic
- BLS Procedures
- Population
- All / see source
- Scope
- BLS
- Source index update
- October 1, 2017
- Source checked
- September 16, 2026
Where it fits: Tourniquets: Indications and Procedure is an official procedure reference used to verify indications, provider scope, equipment, performance steps, reassessment, and documentation. OCEMS lists it under “BLS Procedures.”
Document note: Use the complete official document for mandatory wording, exceptions, definitions, and requirements that cannot be reduced safely to directory metadata.
Use this source safely
- Confirm that the procedure is authorized for the provider and patient population and that its clinical indication is established by the applicable standing order.
- Use the complete source for contraindications, equipment details, required confirmation, complications, and documentation language.
- Use the source index date as a directory signal, not as proof that no later notice or agency instruction applies.
- When the PDF and a summary differ, follow the current official document and medical or operational direction.