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A Byron Shire councillor is hoping to introduce a regulation that will see surfers fined up to $1,100 for not wearing a leg rope, likening the practice to being as easy as "'wearing seatbelts".
So we designed a study to work out whether pushing on the groin over the femoral artery, as you describe, or using the leg rope would be the best, and we found that pushing the groin was by far the best way of stopping the blood flow. so it is really quite easy. you just lay the person down who is bleeding and you find their midline where their generals are and you find the outside of the hip bone, and the groin crease is where the leg joins onto the body, so all you need to do is, in the middle of that spot, push down as hard as you can and you will compress the femoral artery and stop the bl...
An australian doctor says he has developed a new first—aid method which could help save shark attack victims from fatal blood loss from the legs. the technique requires a by—stander to use their fist and apply pressure between the hip bone and groin area. well, that doctor is nicholas taylor, who explains how the technique works. we developed this technique because bleeding from shark bites is really catastrophic and the injuries that sharks cause is, you know, lots and lots of damage to the muscles, sometimes the bones and blood vessels in the leg. we knew that trying to put pressure on t...
When that happens. i sort of felt something start pulling on my leg. i guess that when it was stucken my leg rope. i knew something was wrong then. >> have you seen sharks out there before? >> i haven't seen sharks out there at that time. but yeah not, not so much that close. you know, a bit of a bait fish around and stuff look that. i hadn't seen many sharks up until then. >> so when the fin of the shark comes out of the water that's when the viewers realized what was going on. was that the first kind of actual glimpse you got of it? >> yeah pretty much. the viewers saw it. exactly how i firs...
Thinking. but, yeah i didn't, i didn't know if i would have had enough time to react. or whatever. i just thought, well you know kind can't go down without a fight. >> there was a time when a wave blocks the view. and, and the viewers, we can't see what's happening. at that point, were you separated from your board? >> yeah i had been knocked off my board. and, yeah that's when the -- the shark bit through my leg rope. and -- but, yeah it circled back around. that's when it, yeah, just came straight past me. i was just push might way away from it. you know? and, just trying to just trying to g...