Bleeding is the loss of blood from the circulatory system. It can occur either externally, where blood escapes from the body, or internally, where blood is released from blood vessels inside the body. Bleeding can be a minor inconvenience or a life-threatening emergency, depending on the severity and location of the bleeding. There are several […]
Category: Bleeding
How blood clots in a cut?
Blood clots are an important part of the body’s natural response to injury. When a person suffers a cut, the body immediately begins the process of forming a blood clot to help stop the bleeding and protect the body from infection. When a person suffers a cut, the first thing that happens is that the […]
Applying elevation sling
Applying an elevation sling is done for immobilising an arm with a serious bleed to restrict movement and elevate the arm to reduce bleeding.
Serious bleeding
Delivering First Aid for a serious bleed is initially carried out with direct pressure and the use of a pressure bandage.
Embedded objects
Delivering First Aid for an Embedded objects in the body is a process that requires you to stabilise the object to prevent further injury.
Haemostatic dressings
Haemostatic dressings and powders are an ideal way of controlling a catastrophic bleed on a patient. These are available on our First Aid Equipment online store.
Celox Rapid Gauze – Training version
Celox has a training version of their Celox Gauze that can be used to train students how to pack a wound correctly with Celox. You can buy this at our First Aid Equipment store.
Commercial Tourniquets
Commercial Tourniquets are available in different designs but they all do the same job, stop a catastrophic bleed on a limb. See also the Tourni-Key Plus from citizenAID®.
Critical Injury Kit
Critical Injury first aid kit to treat a catastrophic bleed on a patient. it includes a tourniquet, trauma dressings, Haemostatic dressings and other items to treat catastrophic bleeds.
STAT Tourniquets
The STAT tourniquet is a simple quick to apply tourniquet to treat catastrophic bleeding on a patients limb. See also the Tourni-Key Plus from citizenAID®.