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If additional bandages are needed for a severely bleeding wound they should be placed on top of the older bandages. Please select the best answer from the choices provided. T F

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This statement is true.

User Charlie Skilbeck
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The answer is true.

If the wound is severely bleeding then taking off older bandages to replace them with new ones will just open the wound up even more and increase the bleeding. New bandages should be placed tightly over the older ones to increase the pressure to try and stop the bleeding.

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