No matter what the situation, as long as the casualty has a wound

No matter what the case as long as the casualty has a wound can be wrapped with a dressing to stop the bleeding, not necessarily pressurized, some pressurized wrapping led to ischemic necrosis.

1, dressings

Dressings are used for items other than the main auxiliary materials, mainly refers to the hemostatic gauze (usually for the medical skim gauze). Traditional dressings are mainly dry gauze and oil gauze. Modern wound dressings include interactive wound dressings, calcium alginate dressings, silver dressings, foam dressings, hydrocolloid dressings and hydrogel dressings.

2, wound treatment

Generally, wounds can be treated by cleaning the wound, anti-inflammatory sterilization and bandaging the wound. If the wound is deeper and larger, the patient should seek medical attention in a timely manner and under the guidance of the doctor for relevant treatment and therapy.

Cleaning the wound: When a wound occurs, the location of the wound should be checked first, and then the wound should be cleaned with saline. If you don't have saline, you can also use running water to clean the wound and remove the dirt and foreign objects on the wound. Anti-inflammatory sterilization: after the wound cleaning is completed, you need to use iodophor or alcohol and other disinfectants to disinfect and sterilize the wound to prevent wound infection.

Trauma first aid steps:

1, ensure ventilation

Ventilation is one of the important aspects of trauma first aid, for patients without airway damage, by cleaning the airway, or even tracheal intubation, can also play a role in improving ventilation. For patients with respiratory and cardiac arrest, prompt cardiopulmonary resuscitation treatment is needed.

2, hemostatic treatment

such as compression hemostasis, compression bandage hemostasis, gauze tamponade hemostasis, padded flexion hemostasis, clamp hemostasis and tourniquet hemostasis, etc., the patient needs to be flexible according to the situation, so as not to lead to shock due to excessive blood loss.

3, bandage treatment

For exposed open wounds need to be bandaged, commonly used tools are bandages and triangular towel, after the wound can reduce contamination, help stop bleeding. When bandaging, patients need to pay attention to the aseptic operation, there are bone and joint injuries need local immobilization, braking, used to reduce pain, and to avoid causing secondary damage to blood vessels and nerves.

In addition, more serious soft tissue injuries, should be taken to local immobilization, can be medical splints, braces, etc., or tree branches, sticks, etc..