The speed of performance and safety are fundamental in any situation of physical or emotional stress. Hemorrhage is one in which you can find easily. For this reason, we will give you some basic guidelines to follow when you meet people with an open wound or external haemorrhage in a situation.
Steps to follow:
The first step is to call emergency.
- Notify emergency.
- Pressing the bleeding or injury preventing that comes out more blood. The ideal is to do it with sterile gauze pads, if it is not possible, with cloths or clean clothes. When the blood drain through the gauze or garments and these do not absorb more, not must replace as this would release the pressure and reavivaría hemorrhage, they should be more over.
- If bleeding affects a tip, this should lift.
- Lie to the affected person, cover it with a blanket and lift his feet.
- If the bleeding does not stop and we have knowledge of Anatomy and Physiology, we can press the affected artery, thus prevents the passage of blood into the wound.
- In extreme cases in which the life of the person is committed and provided that we have expertise to do this, apply a tourniquet. It is very important to do it correctly, which lasted no more than 15 minutes, if it is so relax a little pressure for 30 seconds, and tighten and keep cold member. A single tourniquet can be removed by qualified health personnel that will be informed at that time is
- A tourniquet too long or badly carried out can lead to more serious consequences than the own hemorrhage such as gangrene, paralysis, etc.
- If the injury has been caused by an object that remains in the body (wood, iron, glass, etc.), we should not remove it, as it could worsen the situation.
- If we manage to control bleeding, you will have to clean the wound with normal saline spray or water, in the absence.
- Throughout time, we must maintain the patient conscious and calm and control their vital to the extent possible constants.
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