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NREMT Paramedic Trauma Exam Prep

Category - Paramedic Trauma

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While controlling a patient’s bleeding with gauze and pressure, you notice the patient has bled through the small amount of gauze you had applied. The bleeding is slowing, but has not stopped.

How do you continue to manage this bleeding?
  1. Immediately apply a tourniquet
  2. Remove the gauze and replace it with clean gauze
  3. Add additional gauze to the wound and continue to apply pressure
  4. Tape down the existing gauze to apply additional pressure to the wound
Explanation
Answer: C- The correct management of continued bleeding through gauze is to apply more gauze as long as the bleeding is reasonably well controlled and there situation is not life threatening.

Removing old gauze can rip away clots that have been forming, and the bandaging helps promote clot development. A tourniquet is not necessary as the bleeding is slowing.
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