Education about first aid

Hi friends, today I'm going to tell you something about first aid . Of course, it's a minor for all but very important to us. We all should have the education about the first aid. Well, first aid is the treatment given to the patient after accident and before taken to the hospital. First aid helps the patient to prevent in different ways. There are different types of the first in different accident. Here I'm just telling you about Dressing.

DRESSING:-
Dressing is the procedure of protection the wound from germs and further injury.It also helps to feel relief from injury for few time before reach to the hospital. There are two types of the dressing. They are as follows:-

1. Medical Dressing:- Dressing is done for closed wound, for example; application of megnesium sulphate on abscess. It doesn't require sterile technique.
2. Surgical Dressing:- It requires sterile technique. It is done in open wound.

Articles required for the dressing are as follows:

• Kidey tray
  
• Bowl
• Artery forcep
• Descecting forcep
• scissors
• anticeptic soluton(betadine, savlon solution, dettol)
• sterile gloves
• Makintosh/rubber sheet
• Gauze (steriled) /cotton
• Bandage

There are some of the purposes for dressing. They are as follows:

• To protect the wound from further injury.
  
• To prevent entry of micro organism and also to prevent discomfort that arise due to temperature change.
• To provide pressure on the wound to minimize the collection of fluid and oedema of tissue.
• Control bleeding by application of pressure on the blood vessels.
• To absorb discharge e.g.d pus, blood and to keep the wound area dry.
  

After getting the education about the purposes of dressing we should get education about procedure of the dressing. Then only we can help to the injury patient. The procedure are as follows:

1. At first collect all the articles in bed side.
2. Explain the procedure to the patient.
3. Before doing the procedure we have to wash our handwith soap and water.
4. Expose the area of wound and drap the patient properly.
5. Open the dressing site and pous the anticeptic solution in the bowl for cleaning the wound.
6. Wear sterile gloves.
7. Avoid touching the wound directly.
8. Never touch or sneeze over the wound.
9. Put extra dressing pads to control bleeding and absorb discharge with the help of bandage.
10. Discard the soiled dressing if any.
11. Record the condition of the wound.