How Do I Apply an Emergency Bandage?

Emergency management of bleeding, tourniquet is generally used for arterial bleeding, which is characterized by pulsatile bleeding. A rubber tube or towel can be used as a tourniquet. When bundling, first raise the injured limb and pad with 4 to 5 layers of gauze or clean towels. Bind a tourniquet near the bleeding site near the heart; the pressure should be to block the arterial blood flow, and the limb should be pale when correct ; Indicate the date and time of the tourniquet. The tourniquet strapping should be relaxed regularly. The upper limbs should be relaxed every 0.5 to 1 hour, and the lower limbs should be relaxed every 1 to 1.5 hours. Each time they should be relaxed for 2 to 5 minutes, and should not exceed 15 minutes. When you relax, you should compress the wound to prevent excessive blood loss.

Emergency management of bleeding

Emergency management of bleeding, tourniquet is generally used for arterial bleeding, which is characterized by pulsatile bleeding. A rubber tube or towel can be used as a tourniquet. When bundling, first raise the injured limb and pad with 4 to 5 layers of gauze or clean towels. Bind a tourniquet near the bleeding site near the heart; the pressure should be to block the arterial blood flow, and the limb should be pale when correct ; Indicate the date and time of the tourniquet. The tourniquet strapping should be relaxed regularly. The upper limbs should be relaxed every 0.5 to 1 hour, and the lower limbs should be relaxed every 1 to 1.5 hours. Each time they should be relaxed for 2 to 5 minutes, and should not exceed 15 minutes. When you relax, you should compress the wound to prevent excessive blood loss.

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Emergency management of bleeding

Bleeding the superficial wound is washed with saline, and then disinfected with 1/1000 of new clean and disinfected medicine, and then withdraw Yunnan Baiyao or other local hemostatic agents, cover with sterile gauze and apply a suitable bandage to bandage.

Can be used for arterial bleeding, temporarily closing the arteries near the wound. Generally, first try to stop bleeding by local compression. If the bleeding does not stop, you need to press the corresponding proximal artery, such as a tourniquet to stop bleeding. (1) Head bleeding: Support the injured post with one hand to fix most of the head: The other hand presses the money-carrying artery above and before the outer ear.
(2) Facial bleeding: fix the injured head with one hand, and press the thumb with the other hand to compress the facial artery located under the anterior and lower jaw.
(3) Head and Neck Bleeding: Standing in front of the wounded. Put one hand at the base of the neck. The thumb is in front, and 2 to 5 fingers are at the back. After the thumb touches the common carotid artery, the common carotid artery is pressed on the sixth cervical spine. However, it should be noted that the neck-movement method can only be used in an emergency, and it can only be used on one side. It is absolutely forbidden to press both sides at the same time, so as to avoid causing cerebral ischemia.

(4) Shoulder bleeding: Touch the subclavian artery with your thumb and press the artery backwards and downwards towards the first rib.
(5) Forearm bleeding: Touch the anti-arterial pulse on the ulnar side of the cubital fossa (usually where blood pressure is measured), and compress with your thumb.

(6) Bleeding on the palm and back of the hand: Touch the pulsation of the flexor artery and ulnar artery and press with the thumbs of both hands.
(7) Lower extremity hemorrhage: The femoral artery pulsation is not touched along the thigh root groin. The femoral artery is compressed deep with the thumbs of both hands.
(8) Hemorrhage of the foot: Touch the dorsal foot artery or the internal and external ankle artery pulsation and press with the thumb.