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First-Aid and Basic Medicine | Tuesday | Period Two
Once again, Bruce's class was set up in clusters of desks, with a first-aid kit stocked with several rolls of bandaging and bandage tape on every table. There was also a dummy on the table at the front of the room, but none for the students; it seemed that after the lecture and demonstration, the students would be practicing on each other.
"Hi," Bruce said from the front of the room. "Uh, so today we're going over basic bandaging techniques for simple injuries that need compression. There are three main kinds that we'll look at today – circular, spiral and figure-eight."
He took a seat on the edge of the desk and picked up a roll of bandage from the first-aid kit. "The first method is circular bandaging, which is for smaller injuries that can be covered by the width of the bandage. Start with one layer by rotating the bandage all the way around the limb – say the arm or leg – then tape it down at the end of the first layer, and then continue to wrap more layers directly over the bottom." As he described the process, he demonstrated on the dummy on the desk. "Remember to position the bandage diagonally over the body part to give enough space so it's not too tight. And, uh, usually three or four layers is enough. No need to use all your supplies on one injury, because if the next injury you have to take care of is worse and you don't have any bandage left, that'll be... awful."
In the meantime, see? The dummy's wound (which didn't exist) was totally bandaged now!
"Next there's spiral bandaging, which is similar except that about a third of each layer covers a new area of skin," Bruce continued, beginning to demonstrate on a separate limb belonging to the dummy. "You'll use more bandage on this because it's for somewhat larger injuries, usually on cylindrical parts of the body with consistent circumference like the middle of the foot or wrist, but any given part of the injury should still only have three or four layers. It's especially important to keep this kindloose, because the point here is elasticity."
This poor dummy was starting to look more like a mummy now.
"For joints, you want to use figure-eight bandaging, like this," Bruce said, beginning to work on bandaging the dummy's knee. "With this, you bind the joint from the bottom and the top in one strip. Try to tape it down anywhere other than the back of the joint – it won't hold if you tape it in the back, and then there'll be a messy exposed injury and you've wasted your tape."
He held up the finished product so that everyone could see this poor, creepy-looking dummy.
"With any technique," he added, "you want to find the balance between too tight and too loose, and avoid using more supplies than you need to. Try practicing on each other for now, if you're, uh, comfortable with that, and come see me if you have any questions."
"Hi," Bruce said from the front of the room. "Uh, so today we're going over basic bandaging techniques for simple injuries that need compression. There are three main kinds that we'll look at today – circular, spiral and figure-eight."
He took a seat on the edge of the desk and picked up a roll of bandage from the first-aid kit. "The first method is circular bandaging, which is for smaller injuries that can be covered by the width of the bandage. Start with one layer by rotating the bandage all the way around the limb – say the arm or leg – then tape it down at the end of the first layer, and then continue to wrap more layers directly over the bottom." As he described the process, he demonstrated on the dummy on the desk. "Remember to position the bandage diagonally over the body part to give enough space so it's not too tight. And, uh, usually three or four layers is enough. No need to use all your supplies on one injury, because if the next injury you have to take care of is worse and you don't have any bandage left, that'll be... awful."
In the meantime, see? The dummy's wound (which didn't exist) was totally bandaged now!
"Next there's spiral bandaging, which is similar except that about a third of each layer covers a new area of skin," Bruce continued, beginning to demonstrate on a separate limb belonging to the dummy. "You'll use more bandage on this because it's for somewhat larger injuries, usually on cylindrical parts of the body with consistent circumference like the middle of the foot or wrist, but any given part of the injury should still only have three or four layers. It's especially important to keep this kindloose, because the point here is elasticity."
This poor dummy was starting to look more like a mummy now.
"For joints, you want to use figure-eight bandaging, like this," Bruce said, beginning to work on bandaging the dummy's knee. "With this, you bind the joint from the bottom and the top in one strip. Try to tape it down anywhere other than the back of the joint – it won't hold if you tape it in the back, and then there'll be a messy exposed injury and you've wasted your tape."
He held up the finished product so that everyone could see this poor, creepy-looking dummy.
"With any technique," he added, "you want to find the balance between too tight and too loose, and avoid using more supplies than you need to. Try practicing on each other for now, if you're, uh, comfortable with that, and come see me if you have any questions."
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