Yes I fully understand there are down sides to the use of quick clot type stuff. But sometimes it is the best option. Especially if alone, can't fully reach the damaged part, and have multiple substantial injuries.
Yes I fully understand there are down sides to the use of quick clot type stuff. But sometimes it is the best option. Especially if alone, can't fully reach the damaged part, and have multiple substantial injuries.
What he said! I also keep some in the truck when hunting and have used it on dogs if the get tore upStuff like this is in my backpack:
I’ll be honest I had to look up “yarrow” I have a lot growing around my place and had no idea what it was. If you ever find yourself up my way peanut I still want to walk with you threw my property and see what all I really have
Yes I fully understand there are down sides to the use of quick clot type stuff. But sometimes it is the best option. Especially if alone, can't fully reach the damaged part, and have multiple substantial injuries.
The gauze is better than the powder - particularly for a deep wound that has created a bit of a cavity. The powder was just too difficult to control where it went after if came out of the packet.
The gauze comes out of the pack like a conventional bandage. You then feed the gauze into the cavity by folding it back and forth upon the gauze already in there. Retain/insert each layer with the end of your finger until you have the whole thing in there (or at least as much as you can fit). Then put conventional gauze or a conventional wound pad/dressing (like an Israeli bandage) over the top and apply pressure. If it is a bad bleeder (and on a limb) then use a CAT as well.
Guaze is better. The powder is hard to clean out. Although I'd use it if I had to. Have both. I use skin glue often enough. I've glued two fingertips back on and that healed fine. Also superglue. I've glued on a tooth veneer with superglue. This drives one of our daughters nuts. I've made her help.
I have simply got to get much more serious about this. As much as I dislike watching You-tube videos.........the one part of this in which I am badly flawed, is how to do first aid to "Self" in locations of the body that one thinks they "can't" stop bleeding. This is when alone in the wilderness.
OK.......A good big Bear bite that does not tear a chunk of flesh off, just makes a hole (actually two to maybe four holes per bite) about one inch in diameter and inch and half deep, not squirting blood, but steady blood flow leakage. The hole will likely close down to half inch as tooth is released.
Question: try to pack the hole with this gauze or just wrap and apply compression and pray.....???
We were trained to pack the wound as much as you can and use any excess as a pressure dressing. Hold compression for until the bleeding stops or minimal 3 minutes. Then use a standard pressure dressing to wrap the quick clot cause to maintain pressure on the wound. Weather or not a wound needs the quick clot cause is depending on the extent of the bleeding. If you can stop the bleeding with normal compression, then normal compression would work fine.
I am just not very sure I can "Man-up" to stuffing gauze in bear bite holes in MY body.
I am just not very sure I can "Man-up" to stuffing gauze in bear bite holes in MY body.
OK.......A good big Bear bite that does not tear a chunk of flesh off, just makes a hole (actually two to maybe four holes per bite) about one inch in diameter and inch and half deep, not squirting blood, but steady blood flow leakage. The hole will likely close down to half inch as tooth is released.
Question: try to pack the hole with this gauze or just wrap and apply compression and pray.....???
Something to remember, is that medicine is not THAT different from any other industry. If you want to make money, you have to find ways to sell new products to people, EVEN if there is nothing wrong with the old one. A couple times a year I attend trauma conferences, and outside each conference hall is always a hallway backed with sales rep booths trying to pitch some new gadget. Very rarely, one of these actually becomes part of the toolbox....but that is very rare.
The most useful thing about quikclot type products is that they are a little bit more of a 'fire and forget' treatment than gauze, which could be useful if you are in the middle of combat, need to stop bleeding on yourself, and then keep fighting, hoping that the QK does its thing while you are otherwise occupied.
BIG Thanks............Next question, very common is large chunk of meat and skin torn off or dangling. This is generally thigh, butt cheek, arm bicep or triceps', scalp. Strangely people walk substantial distances with these chunks of flesh hanging, especially scalp. Question......how to self treat......??
The technical term for this is 'avulsion'
If covered in dirt, etc you rinse off the avulsed flesh with any water clean enough to drink (doesn't need to be sterile), place it back in place the best you can, and wrap it tightly with bandage, and get to medical care. Do not use hydrogen peroxide, alcohol etc. These kill the outer layers of flesh they touch and make healing less likely.
It won't 'heal' by putting in back way but it will help keep it at body temperature and from drying out. If you let that flesh get cold and dry, its gone so do the best you can to return it to a normal condition while you get to help.
If there is no medical care available, you are in big trouble. You can try to stitch the flesh back in place and use anti-biotics to prevent infection. If you are luckily and there are enough blood vessels left to keep the partially detached tissue perfused it may heal. If not, it will become necrotic and die. If that happens it has to be removed and enough tissue at the edges of the wound to get to 'good' tissue and you can attempt to close the wound.
If completely detached, treat like an amputation.
Sounds like a story there...Thanks......That was "sobering". Had I fully grasped this, the last five decades of my life would have been different.
..Next question, very common is large chunk of meat and skin torn off or dangling. ..how to self treat......??
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