Bleeding

Question 1

What is internal bleeding?

Answer 1

This is bleeding inside the body. Thorax, abdomen, pelvis and legs have the most blood volume.

Question 2

What is external bleeding?

Answer 2

Bleeding that is visible

Question 3

What is arterial bleeding?

Answer 3

Oxygenated blood in high pressure leaving the body. Spurs out, bright red

Question 4

What is venous bleeding?

Answer 4

Deoxygenated blood that is dark red and flows out. Serious from veins and in the neck/legs

Question 5

What is capillary bleeding?

Answer 5

Smallest blood vessels in the body, both oxygenated and deoxygenated blood.

Question 6

What can blood loss lead to?

Answer 6

Shock

Question 7

Management of blood loss?

Answer 7

Check for catastrophic haemorrhage, control circulation. Apply direct pressure and elevation. Apply tourniquet, add a traction splint, consider wound packaging (celox)

Question 8

How to apply torniquet?

Answer 8

Apply first tourniquet on limb, if this does not stop bleeding apply another tourniquet on-top of the existing one. Pack wound with hameostatic gauze and dressing. Apply pressure

Question 9

Minimum applying pressure time?

Answer 9

Approx 3 mins

Question 10

What should you always put on a torniquet?

Answer 10

Time of applicaiton

Question 11

What are the 7 wounds?

Answer 11

Bruises, grazes, tears, cuts, stabs, burns and gunshots

Question 12

What are bruises?

Answer 12

Caused by bleeding from damaged blood vessels under the skin.

Question 13

What are grazes?

Answer 13

Injuries caused by friction breaking skin away.

Question 14

What are tears?

Answer 14

Tear or splitting of skin. Also known as laceration.

Question 15

What is a cut?

Answer 15

Break in the continuity of the skin by something sharp

Question 16

What are stabs?

Answer 16

A penetrating wound caused by sharp object piercing the skin

Question 17

What are burns?

Answer 17

Injury caused by energy transfer cussing body tissues to die (necrosis)

Question 18

What should you ask someone who has a wound?

Answer 18

Have they had a tetanus vaccination?

Question 19

How do you clean a wound?

Answer 19

Use a wet gauze/wipes to clean the edges of the wound wiping away from it to avoid contamination
Continue until all dirt and blood is removed
Use tap water
Cover with a dressing

Question 20

How do you manage a penetrating object in a wound?

Answer 20

Use tweezers to remove a small foreign object from a wound
If it’s big do not remove it, apply a dressing over it consider putting 2 on either side of the object.