NREMT Trauma Practice Questions: Quiz 4 March 5, 2016 By Rana Waqar 1 Comment Your patient has a laceration to the right leg which has intersected the femoral artery. You have applied direct pressure to the wound, but it continues to soak through the bandages. What should you do next? 1. Apply a tourniquet 2. Elevate the leg 3. Remove the old bandage and apply new ones 4. Apply pressure to the pressure point just above the injury Δ
Kitt Gill says March 5, 2016 at 11:54 pm A femoral injury? Seriously cat tourniquet would be indicated, direct pressire or pressure to the femoral pressure point is not enough, and raising the leg will do nothing considering the patient is bleeding out! Reply
Kitt Gill says
A femoral injury? Seriously cat tourniquet would be indicated, direct pressire or pressure to the femoral pressure point is not enough, and raising the leg will do nothing considering the patient is bleeding out!