Author Question: If you cannot stop severe bleeding with pressure and cannot use a tourniquet (groin, axilla, neck, ... (Read 86 times)

Mollykgkg · **on:** Jul 2, 2018

If you cannot stop severe bleeding with pressure and cannot use a tourniquet (groin, axilla, neck, face and/or scalp), you should consider:

a. putting your gloved finger in the wound
b. packing the wound with a hemostatic agent
c. rapid transportation and no more dressings
d. helicopter evacuation to a trauma center

Question 2

If your patient sustains an injury that results in life-threatening hemorrhage that you cannot control with direct pressure, you should immediately:

a. apply a tourniquet
b. splint as best as possible
c. use a pressure point
d. add a pressure bandage