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Determining the Bleeding, AHA’s Guidelines

One of the most common and imperative skill of any first responder or first-aid provider is making the injured person stop bleeding. The given video is created to list the updated guidelines for first-aid, post an injury, stroke attack or Anaphylaxis, spinal motion restriction and more. The video is presented by Adam Safety a certified training institute in San Francisco.

What Guidelines to Follow When a Patient Is Bleeding?

Generally applying direct pressure is recommended for bleeding control. This can be done with or without using a gauge. The use of pressure points and elevation of an injury have been traditional, however, there are no pieces of evidence to support this method. For controlling the external bleeding the first-aid provider is required to apply direct pressure on the bleeding point to make it stop. The use of Hemostatic dressings has been more frequent in the recent times. Earlier the powered hemostatic agents were used for controlling bleeding; these granular agents would worsen the tissue injury. The newer hemostatic impregnated dressings are safer and effective. There might be some infections or exothermic burns but problems in using these dressings have become highly diminutive. Therefore, as per the updated guidelines, AHA recommends the use of hemostatic dressings to check external bleeding.

Please watch the video below as it mentions guidelines for other injuries too.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Joe Anderson .