Hemorrhage Control Quiz

1 You respond code 3 for a patient who has been attacked with a knife. The scene is secure and your patient is conscious with two defensive wounds to his left forearm. Both wounds are actively bleeding and the patient has lost an estimated 150 mL of blood. The bleeding is not spurting; in fact it looks steady but not bright red. What should your first intervention be if the patient's airway and breathing are sufficient?

2 Fill in the blank.

3 If needed, a tourniquet may be loosened periodically to help restore blood flow to the distal tissues and prevent a toxic buildup of intracellular components and products of anaerobic metabolism.

4 Wound packing involves shoving a ball of gauze into a wound and then applying direct pressure and a dressing.

5 Your patient is unresponsive and has been in a motor vehicle accident and has spurting, bright red blood coming from the area of an open fracture of his tibia. Is placing a tourniquet contraindicated in this scenario?

6 A wound that has already been packed with gauze can be repacked.

7 Which of the following would make an efficient improvised tourniquet?

8 Wires, shoelaces, and other thin, inelastic objects make good tourniquets in the prehospital setting if a commercial one is unavailable.

9 Plain gauze may be used to pack a wound when hemostatic gauze is not available

10 You respond code 3 for a patient whose wife found him cheating and stabbed him in the groin before running out the door. What is/are the correct intervention/s?