On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Seng, Dave wrote: > OK, so I was wrong with my first guess and learned something new - I've > always just let puncture wounds bleed for a while to hopefully flush out the > bad stuff. My first aid can sometimes get quite "field-expedient" - I once > used a combination of spider webs and sawdust to stop the bleeding in a 1.5 > inch gash (from a rusty nail) in the palm of my hand so that I could finish > the job without going to the hospital (back in my younger more foolish > days!). i let the wound bleed freely while i was still swimming the river, when i got out of the water, i checked to make sure i hadn't severed the femoral arterty [turnaquette time!! if you live] and then held pressure on it while 1st aid supplies were gathered... one materials were gathered, i let it bleed while drying off the rest of the leg. i literally had to hold the "plug" in my leg, so it would stop "popping out" > A couple of other thoughts that crossed my mind when I read the original > post: > > - it seemed as though no-one addressed the possible shock issue during the > initial treatment (always treat for shock in trauma cases - and in my mind > having a paddle shaft shoved into your leg counts as trauma!) please expand on this.... > - did anyone ever make contact with the group you had been paddling with > to let them know that you made it to the hospital and were fine? well, eventually, mostly due to canyons, and the fact cell phones, etc were useless. this was a day trip from a base camp, so there were not any phones/signal _readily_ available... someone may have called the next day, i was pretty "out of it" sunday!! the trip coordinator followed up first thing monday morning. mark -- #-canoeist[at]dotzen[dot]org------------------------------------------- mark zen o, o__ o_/| o_. po box 474 </ [\/ [__| [__\ ft. lupton, co 80621-0474 (`-/-------/----') (`----|-------\-') #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~~~~_at_~~~~~ http://www.dotzen.org/paddler [index to club websites i administer] ---- A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner. -- English Proverb *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Aug 10 2000 - 12:44:13 PDT
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