How should you dress a heavily bleeding wound to stop the bleeding?
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Correct answer
A. Apply a pressure dressing.
Explanation
The question is about dressing a heavily bleeding wound. To stop the bleeding, you apply a pressure dressing - answer A.
The Road Traffic Act requires a person involved in an accident to give the necessary help to the victims, and with heavy bleeding every minute counts. First you press hard on the wound, and then you apply a pressure dressing: sterile gauze directly on the wound, a hard pad on top of it, for example a roll of bandage, and you wrap it all tightly with a bandage. When the dressing soaks through, you do not remove it, but add another layer. Iodine and gentian violet (answer B) do not stop blood, and when poured into a deep wound they damage the tissues. An ordinary dressing of gauze or a bandage without pressure (answer C) protects the wound from dirt, but it will not stop heavy bleeding. You work in gloves from the first aid kit, lay the casualty on their back and call an ambulance.
Legal basis: Art. 44 para. 2 point 1 of the Road Traffic Act (Prawo o ruchu drogowym); Art. 162 § 1 of the Criminal Code