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What does profuse bleeding mean?
Profuse bleeding refers to a significant and excessive amount of blood loss from a wound or injury. It can be dangerous and requires immediate medical attention to prevent serious complications or even death.
Why is compression important?
Compression is important to stop bleeding on a wound. Pressing on a bleeding wound will close off the veins so the bleeding slows down.
Why do you dress a bleeding wound?
To reduce bleeding if you apply a pressure dressing. And in any case, to reduce contamination of the wound.
Is there a possibility of catching aids on a train if you have an open wound?
You'd need to get a fairly significant amount of infected blood into your blood stream though an open, undressed wound. So if your wound is open, and they're bleeding all over the place then it could happen.
What type of bleeding when blood flows from the wound?
external bleeding i belive
What are symptoms of a puncture wound?
A puncture wound will be greater than its length, therefore there is usually little bleeding around the outside of the wound and more bleeding inside, causing discoloration
What do doctors mean by old blood in the wound?
It means the there was bleeding in the wound and is now 'old.' The blood collected in the wound without bleeding out. It needs to be cleansed because it can breed bacteria.
What is the proper procedure if a patient shows up at your office bleeding?
That all depends on how much the patient is bleeding. If they are bleeding really bad then you would have to stitch, staple, or glue the patient's wound up after cleaning the blood off first. Now if the patient is bleeding but not loosing a lot of blood, then you would clean the wound and around the wound and then put a band-aid on the wound.
What first aid will you give a person suffering from severe bleeding?
Guidelines say to follow the PEEP or Position, Examine, Elevate, Pressure procedure for bleeding management. Position the wound so that it is easy to treat. Examine the wound for severity or objects. Elevate the wound to help reduce the bleeding. Pressure, apply pressure to the wound to help reduce bleeding and promote clotting of the wound. REMEMBER TO ALWAYS WEAR PROTECTIVE GLOVES!!!
Is rate of bleeding due to a wound more at noon and why?
It is not; it is related to the width and depth of the wound.
Dark red blood flowing from a wound indicates bleeding from?
Dark red blood flowing from a wound indicates bleeding from the veins. Applying direct pressure to the wound can help to stop the flow of blood.
To control bleeding?
There is only one way you can get control of bleeding. You will have to put pressure on the wound.
