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ccrn,
Here is what we did.
1. My first question when I saw all the blood (about a half a pint) was should we call EMS? Our nurse said not yet.
2. I applied direct pressure for about 10 minutes
3. Nurse continued to monitor and clean patient
4. Bleeding dropped off substainally onces I applied direct pressure.
5. After about 20 mins the pictures were taken.
Here are my observations of the left wound:
The left wound (our left as you look at the patient) was the real bleeder in which I applied the direct pressure to. I could not tell how deep it was but when I initially assessed his wound the blood was coming from deep with in the cut it was not coming from the dermis or epidermis layer of tissue. The blood was also flowing out of the wound not a trickle.
We do have protocols when dealing with this but I asked you guys just to make sure we are good to go.
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