As a bandage on the hand at the turn

As a bandage for a hand fracture? This question interests many people. A broken arm is a very unpleasant injury. Many believe that suffering only a bone, but it is not. This injury causes damage to blood vessels, nerves, ligaments. If the fracture occurred in a child, he quickly healed without serious consequences, but the adults are very frequent changes of the skeleton. The hardest condition of the elderly person who fractures grow long.

The most dangerous form of this injury is an open fracture. It often leads to large blood loss and even shock. The bandage on his hand when the fracture is imposed in order to bring victim to the nearest emergency room for professional medical care. It is not necessary to attempt to set the bones, it can lead to serious consequences.

Your task - to provide first aid and send injured to hospital.

What you need to do before putting on a bandage

In that case, if there are any wounds or injuries before bandaging the arm, they need to be washed and processed. After you've tied the scarf, the hand will be in contact with the fabric, which can not be disinfected. Therefore, all open wounds must be treated, dried and dressed.

If the wound is visible a fragment of bone, this means that the injury is serious and you should immediately call a doctor or drive themselves to the clinic. Try to straighten it cannot, this can lead to even more serious damage.

Physicians are advised to wash wounds with clean water. You should try to remove dirt from the wound, then apply a healing ointment, put a gauze and bandage. Damaged limbs should remove jewelry as it may cause obstruction of blood circulation.

Causes of fracture of the upper limb

Reasons that lead to changes hands a lot:

• sports;
• home accident;
• a consequence of the accident;
• professional activities;
• drop;
• a heavy blow on the arm.

In order to distinguish a fracture from other injuries of the hands, you need to know the symptoms:

1. To fracture the typical symptom is an acute pain.
2. Damaged limb cannot be moved.
3. The skin over the damaged bone becomes pale.
4. Is bleeding and swelling of the tissues in the damaged region.
5. No pulsearteries.
6. The limb is numb, there is tingling or burning.
7. You may notice that the arm was longer or shorter.
8. If the fracture is open, visible bone fragments.
9. If severe injury might cause damage to the nearby joints.

Self-medication when the fracture is strictly not allowed. Such injuries require immediate medical care. In order to prevent even greater damage to the limb is applied support bandage.

What are bandage

The choice of a dressing depends entirely on the type of fracture. Often bandages used to treat injuries, e.g. sprains, strains, arthritis, after removal of a plaster bandage.

The locking brace the shoulder joint. This type of dressing is used in fractures of the neck of the shoulder with offsets to a small extent, in fractures of the scapular region, in the period of rehabilitation after shoulder dislocation. It is made of textile inside and outside made of polyester. Not be used for skin diseases and ulcers.

How to use a bandage? The main purpose of this type of dressing is immobilization of the shoulder and elbow joints. Is used during rehabilitation after treatment of injury, including fractures.

Scarf used as first aid after the fracture. The main function of this method of ligation is to support the limb.

Thus, the main task of any ligation is a reliable fixation of the injured limb, in order to ease the victim's condition and speed up his recovery. As we have seen, not always used bandage in fractures, sometimes you need the latch, and after suffering a dislocation or sprain.

If there are no special dressings

In this case, you should use the means at hand, for example, a piece of fabric of square shape. The size of the piece of fabric is chosen depending on the height and size of the victim. For standard dressings suitable cut square shape with a size of 1 meter. It is desirable that the fabric was tough enough.

As the bandaging is fine old pillow case or bed sheet. Cut the desired number, you can use scissors or just tear with your hands. If a piece of cloth will be too big, it can always be adjusted.

1. To fold the segment so that to make a triangle.
2. Then you need to preteroti one end of the arm and the other through the damaged shoulder.
3. You then flip the part of the triangle throughsore shoulder.
4. After that you should hold the end of the triangle, which is closer to the floor, pick it up and throw in the neck.
5. If the ligation is performed correctly, the fingers will be visible and you can use them.
6. Then you need to tie a knot behind the neck.

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To while wearing bandages to sprained back or neck, you should maintain the correct posture. The fact that bandaged hand is an additional burden for the back. The only way to avoid fatigue is to maintain proper posture.