A 12-year-old girl opened friend’s leg wound remembering a technique she read about in one of The Hunger Games novels. She tied a tourniquet around the wound then.
Megan and her friend Mackenzie were playing. When Mackenzie fell and cut her calf open on a steel pump.
Megan used a pair of shorts to fashion a tourniquet quickly on the wound and applied pressure to stem the bleeding.
“I knew it from a book I read,” she said of the young adult fiction trilogy written by Suzanne Collins. “I figured it was a well-known method of stopping bleeding,” Megan said.
The protagonist Katniss Everdeen, lives in a dystopian future and is often hunts, fight, and try to survive a morbid game pitting young people against each other in life-threatening situations.
Mackenzie was taken to hospital and doctors said there was no muscle or nerve damage to her leg. She is expected to make a full recovery in a month.
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