Treating Bleeding or Shock

What happens when you cut a capillary?

When a minor scrape or cut opens some capillaries, the bleeding is almost always very slow and small in quantity

Cutting a capillary induce large amounts of bleeding and can result in death

When you die from being hit by a car

Is Arterial or Venous bleeding worse?

Arterial

Venous

Neither are dangerous

How do you stop arterial bleeding?

With a bandaid

By applying extreme pressure

Your body will heal itself

When treating a serious wound and the blood begins to seep through the bandage do you

Replace the bandage with another one

Quickly run for help

Put another bandage over that one

Scream and run away never to come back

What is preferable to use when you are applying pressure on the wound

Your hand

Clothes

A bandage

A sterile cloth

What is the number one goal of when someone is suffering from a severe blood wound?

To stop the bleeding

To wake them up if they are unconscious

If someone has been impaled what do you do?

You rip it out and apply pressure on the wound with a bandage

Do not touch the impaler and try to work around it

Why should you elevate the victims legs

To make the blood go to their heart to stop the bleeding

To stop the blood from going out of the wound

Why should you elevate the location of the wound

So their flesh doesn't spill out of the wound

To stop some blood from going out the wound

More Quizzes