Hillsboro is 35 miles to the north of Waco, while Hewitt is 8 miles to the southwest. Hotels and apartments in Hillsboro are the Quality Inn and Hampton Inn Hillsboro. The Homewood Suites by Hilton Waco and TownePlace Suites by Marriott Waco South are some of the accommodation options in Hewitt.
A tourniquet is a constricting or compressing device, specifically a bandage, used to control venous and arterial circulation to an extremity for a period of time. Pressure is applied circumferentially upon the skin and underlying tissues of a limb; this pressure is transferred to the walls of vessels, causing them to become temporarily occluded.
The use of tourniquets, tight straps around an arm or leg and tightened with a windlass to stop bleeding, have been around for nearly 400 years. The first documented case of a tourniquet used on the battlefield was in 1674. Discussions of constricting bands (but without the use of a windlass) date back much further than that.