You and your EMT partner are dispatched to a cabinetmaking shop for a traumatic injury. Once on scene you find a conscious, alert, and oriented 27-year-old man bleeding heavily from his left arm. Your patient explains that he was working with a band saw when he slipped and ran his arm into the blade. He is holding a rag against the wound. The rag is saturated with bright-red blood. He states that he cut his arm approximately 10 minutes prior to your arrival and has not been able to stop the bleeding