Procedures to rapidly limit dangerous levels of bleeding
Emergency bleeding control
Specialty
Emergency medicine
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Emergency bleeding control describes actions that control bleeding from a patient who has suffered a traumatic injury or who has a medical condition that has caused bleeding. Many bleeding control techniques are taught as part of first aid throughout the world.[1] Other advanced techniques, such as tourniquets, are taught in advanced first aid courses and are used by health professionals to prevent blood loss by arterial bleeding.[2] To manage bleeding effectively, it is important to be able to readily identify types of wounds and types of bleeding.
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