"Hopefully it will not. If there is a significant amount of bleeding then it is important to put some pressure on that wound before you wrap. If it begins to bleed through then you add additional bandaging to it."

Ideally the bleeding would stop when a bandage touched it, but he knew that was wishful thinking much of the time.

"All you can really do is stop it as much as you can and get them immediate assistance as soon as possible."