The protection of your home against air raids / Home Office.

Date:
1938
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The protection of your home against air raids / Home Office. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    WOUNDED LIMBS i First raise the limb to lessen the flow of blood. 2 If the flow of blood is steady (when a vein is injured) cover the wound with a dressing, and bandage it firmly as already described. 3 If the blood comes in spurts and the blood itself is brilliant red (when an artery is injured), raise the limb, and grasp it tightly between the wound and the point where the limb joins the body. Get someone else to apply dressings in the way already described. Keep the limb well raised. Release your grasp. Watch carefully. If the bleeding starts again, renew your grip and hold the limb firmly until skilled help arrives. If it is too tiring to keep your grasp, tie the limb firmly with a bandage (or a tie or handkerchief or even stout string), insert a stick (or a large skewer, or spoon, or fork) in the knot as shown in the illustration, and twist it until the bleeding stops. Then tie the stick, or whatever you use, firmly in position. If help does not come within about fifteen minutes, untwist the stick and loosen the bandage. If the bleeding starts again, the bandage and stick must again be tightened. Loosen them again at intervals of about fifteen minutes. When there is no further bleeding, the wound can be dressed in the ordinary way, but care must be taken not to move the limb. 4 Treat the patient for shock.