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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?

Tourniquet the arm
Apply a pressure dressing proximal to the wounds.
Apply direct pressure to the wounds with a sterile dressing.
Gather a story of what happened so you can better treat your patient.

2 Fill in the blank.

A tourniquet should be placed a minimum of

inches proximal to the bleeding.

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.

True
False

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

True
False

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?

Yes, an open fracture is a contraindication to the placement of a tourniquet.
Yes, the patient's bleeding may be managed by direct pressure or a pressure dressing.
No, so long as the tourniquet is placed in a way that the fracture is reduced.
No, an open fracture is not a contraindication to the placement of a tourniquet.

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

True
False

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

Triangular bandage with a pencil
Strips of a pant leg with scissors
Strips of elastic leggings with a wooden dowel
A shoelace with a pencil
A triangular bandage by itself
All of the above
None of the above

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

True
False

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

True
False

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?

Direct Pressure
Wound Packing
Tourniquet
All of the above
A and/or B
A and/or C
B and/or C


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Authors Josh Hantke, Catherine Mohr
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Created July 9, 2021 by Catherine Mohr
Last modified March 1, 2023 by Felipe Schenone
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