Question

You are called to an injured person to find a​ 27-year-old male with a laceration on his anterior forearm. Bleeding is dark​ red, steady, and fast. You control bleeding with direct pressure and then dress the wound. After you dress the​ wound, the bleeding restarts.

Answer 1

You are to constantly keep pressure and elevation to the wound area(except to an embedded object or you eye) until medical attention arrives. If bleeding resumes, apply pressure to the artery along the bone. To check and see if you did put pressure in the correct place remove pressure from the wound site and see if the bleeding has stopped.