[QUOTE=ÜberFly;3812284]Unfortunately, I'm not on Facebook, so I cannot see the article you posted...
That being said, nobody, I repeat nobody should be suturing anyone without medical training (out in the boonies or at home)!! I'm not sure why people think that they can (or should)!
Because you can't suture a two day old wound and you are 3 days from a hospital.
I know of two incidents where the person was glad to have there hands sutured in remote camps in the Yukon.
Making contact with a SPOT or Sat phone doesn't lift the clouds to allow a float plane to land.
It's not uncommon to be weather in for several days.
I can't legally apply a tourniquet but in a remote area either but I am not going sit and wait for a person to bleed out.
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