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- Ensure the patient, you and the environment is safe.- Check the patients ABC's- Cover the wound with a sterile dressing, (to prevent infection and further blood loss), and treat the patient for shock, (sit/lie the patient down, cover with a blanket and NIL Per MOUTH).- Call the Emergency Services and give them the details.- The amputated part should be placed in a plastic bag and that bag should be placed in another bag filled with ice*.
Cooling the amputated part slows down the metabolic rate, (the speed that the tissue uses up the available Oxygen), and therefore lasts longer.
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