First Aid
First Aid
for servere bleeding
- Direct pressure
on a wound will stop most bleeding. Put on latex gloves from your first
aid kit. With a clean cloth or sterile dressing as a pad, use the palm
of your hand to apply firm pressure directly over the wound. Don't wate
time-when clean material is not close by, use a neckerchief, shirt, or
whatever else you can reach.
- While pressing
on the wond, raise the injury above the level of the victim's heart.
- Direct pressure
is always the treatment of choice. Bleeding can sometims be further
slowed
by pressing hard on an arterial pressure point in the victim's armpit
or
groin. Try using pressure points if direct pressure over broken bones
will
cause further injury or if the nature of a wound makes direct pressure
ineffective.
- Don't remove
a direct pressure pad that has become soaked with blood. Instead, place
a fresh pad over the first one and continue applying pressure.
- When bleeding
has stopped, hold pad in place with a cravat bandage, an athletic wrap,
strips torn from clothing, or something else close at hand. Bind the
pad
firmly but not so tightly that circulation is cut off. If the bandage
is
on an arm or a leg, periodically feel for a pulse further out on the
limb-at
the wrist or just behind the anklebone. No pule is an indication that
the
bandage is too tight. In all cases of servere bleeding , get the victim
under medical supervision.
- If you have
touched any blood or other bodily fluids, wash your skin with soap and
wather or cleanse with an antiseftic as soon as possible, and change
out
of clothing that might have come in contact with blood.
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