//www.ProFirstAid.com Arterial bleeding is characterized by brighter red blood that may pulsate or spurt. Apply direct pressure with a dressing. If blood leaks ...
wow i can't believe how calm that man was with such a serious wound and
they even had time to make a video :/ does anyone know if he recovered ok?
i always thought it was best to hang the person from the ankles with any
major bleeding like that or at least knock them out with a brick to stop
the person from going into shock. i had to resuscitate a fat heifer lady at
the side of the road once its lucky i had a footpump in the back of the
car, but as quick as i was pumping the air in it was escaping out her arse
hole
Yup, I second this. Just went through a TCCC/CLS course, and tourniquets
are the most effective way to control a massive bleed on an extremity.
Obviously, applying direct pressure TO THE ARTERY, NOT THE WOUND IN GENERAL
is good to do while you are getting the tourniquet ready. If you can have
your patient do this themselves, it will free up your hands. If you can't
put a tourniquet on it (armpit, groin, neck, etc.) then you have to use
direct pressure to bleed, maintaining pressure for 3-5 min
They're able to do things we can't and should. They have some equipment and
techniques that we should be using and doing--but the ambulance service is
very dogmatic on how they deal with bleeding. We hardly carry tourniquets,
never mind specialized ones such as abdominal aorta tourniquets. We hardly
discuss amputees and mass arterial bleeding. There's many procedures out
there that are very productive in this case such as manual external aorta
compression. But nope!
Outside of the battlefield the wounds that require a tourniquet aren't come
across as often as you'd expect. This is not a junctional wound that
requires a tourniquet. It's the radial artery--a small artery with little
'thickness' to the tissue around which it sits. Easier to provide direct
pressure and to wrap it up. Contraindications of TQ use are numerous in our
setting and this case, including loss of limb and limb function. It's not
TQ--be all, end all.
@TJthepianoplayer That's a vein not an artery. But since you asked. Cover
with an occlusive dressing, using bandages wrap in a figure eight from
under the armpit opposite the injury and place yourself in a left lateral
recumbent Trendelenburg position to trap any air bubbles that may have
entered your circulatory system and keep them from being pumped through
your heart. Go to the hospital as quick as you can. :)
These methods are completely outdated and ineffective!!! I am a USAF
Pararescueman with 3 combat deployments. Please refer to Tactical Combat
Casualty Care (TCCC) and learn about the CAT Tourniquet. The last decade of
war has shown the efficacy of tourniquet use (94%) and saves lives every
day. Civilian EMS is lagging way behind.
"Trained in First Aid, whoopee" Battlefield tested and countless lives
saved by tourniquets in Afghanistan/Iraq. Look up the medical studies on
soldiers that died in Vietnam alone that were preventable from a simple TQ.
A TQ can be in place for several hours and still save the limb. Get your
facts straight Sarah!
I think the only reason people say not to use a tourniquet is simply
because if you don't know what your doing you could end up causing much
more damage than necessary. Obviously a trained professional cam easily do
tha to stop it bleeding but your everyday joe might not be able to :)
uuhh my ulnar artery was cut at the left wrist and i had 2 wait 6hrs for a
hand specialist so the blood keeps drizzlin when iu cut off circulation but
when open wow no horror movie comes close to it wish i had it on vido for
those emos
Indeed we are (I am in EMS). Had a relative serve in both Iraq and Afghan
as combat Medic. Can't believe the stuff he was able to do...VERY advanced.
When he came back he was still an 'intermediate' in civilian side. Total
crock.
tourniquets are last resort if bleeding doesnt stop. They say its not safe
to use because you can lose limb. you can if tourniquet is too thin, it
will rip and shred the skin tissue.tourniquet has be 2 to 3 inches wide.
They're very dogmatic as I've commented before on the way they deal with
bleeding but TQ's aren't a one all, end all solution. Radial artery, easy
to provide direct pressure. We're not dealing with battlefield wounds.
when you elevate you're supposed to KEEP THE ARM ELEVATED numb nuts. and
you forget to mention, if bleeding still isn't controlled, use pressure
point on the brachial artery, genius.
Drizzling sounds like a vein, not an artery. An artery will squirt out at
high pressure with bright red blood. A vein will drizzle with deoxygenated
blue-ish tint blood.
Field eXpedients: Quik-Clot Life Saving Powder-and Now Gauze
Quik-Clot will stop arterial bleeding and save lives and limbs as this video shows. The new combat gauze works the same way but isn't a powder that might get ...
"They just threw it in the garbage" Not likely. Even back in the 60s we
used pigs and goats, and almost all of them survived . We nerve-gassed the
goats and used first aid & atropine, and I never saw a goat that didn't
make it. Afterward, they went back to the farmer we "rented" them from.
Same thing with the pigs, after we anesthetized them, shot them and treated
the wound. They recupped for about two weeks and went straight back to the
farm. Better than having soldiers die.
The fact that the test subject bled out before they applied the quick clot,
means that this was a pretty biased test in the products favour....What
would of happened if they applied the quick clot immedietly after severing
the artery while the blood was still hemmoraging from the wound ? I still
think this is a good product though, but I don't like it when subjective
testing is subverted for the sake of marketing.
I think we're talking about statistical data. Land mines and anti personnel
mines usually cause damage at leg-level, I assume that in the last decades
there was a higher incidence of people getting their femoral arteries shot,
hit by fragments or even the shrapnel of bounding mines. They might have
used the incidence of deaths and amputations and figured out what was
deadlier to soldiers.
There's no better, more effective way to test this than to dice up a pig?
Even convinced that's over the top, I'm impressed to say the least with
it's results. Games have given us medpacks and and med gels for years.
About time our military got something akin to it. Now then. To funnel 700
billion into quick clot, and end up with a spray version that actually
heals. Hmm.
Combat gauzes can get blown about just as much as the powder but with
powder it can get blown into your eyes . Quickclot works by sucking out the
moisture to provide the clot, so if you get the powder in your eyes ... Say
hello to blindness! The gauze is a safer route to go for the safety if the
people in tv's very near vicinity. Great idea though.
This stuff is good don't get me wrong, but it causes a chemical reaction
when applied which causes BURNING! Yes, it burns your flesh and can really
cause a lot of damage. An alternative product is Celox, it does the same
thing without the burning and is broken down naturally by the body. Just
thought I'd let people know. Stay safe
1. Can someone really live for 3 minutes with an injury like that? It seems
like you would lose all your blood by then. 2. Just before the poured the
stuff in at 1:17, it looked like the bleeding had basically stopped. Is
that what happens after a few minutes, or did they intervene and slow the
bleeding?
@jessigrady22 i dont think anybody cares about the pig. They just threw it
in the garbage half dead...and get themselves a brand new one. As you know:
Animals are threaded as objects in this sick world! Humans are shit!
Yes, its helped us save hundreds of lives. As bad as Iraq is it could be
even worse; we could be wheeled road land mine kill and have BAD emergency
medicine; KIAs would be 8, 000 if not higher
I remember when I served it was really important to turn your head and pour
in to the wound to avoid from getting any blown through the wind and into
your eyes. Would not be good.
Wouldn't the most severe battlefield injury possible be the complete
"bisection" of the aorta, not the femoral artery? (Of course, excluding a
shot to the heart itself)
Awsome stuff! I work on a Hotshot crew in northern california and we
started to carry Quickclot about 2 seasons ago. luckily we have not had to
use it.
How to Treat a Cut (Part 1): How to Stop a Cut From Bleeding
In this first of a three-part series, family doctor James Hubbard, publisher of //www.TheSurvivalDoctor.com, shows how to stop a cut from bleeding when no ...
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