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That's perfectly reasonable and in common practice. You don't have time to reevaluate the wound during CUF, so by placing it as proximal as possible, you avoid that little bullet fragment that traveled over 10" up the leg and shredded the popliteal artery. In this instance, if you placed a tourniquet just 2-3" above the GSW site, you would have stopped the visible bleeding, but you would be causing a massive compartment syndrome proximal to your tourniquet
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