pressure dressing
Wound-stopping tight bandage
A pressure dressing is a bandage applied firmly to a wound to control bleeding by maintaining constant compression.
The pressure helps slow blood flow and promotes clotting.
Pressure dressings are standard in emergency medicine and first aid for serious lacerations or trauma: Apply a pressure dressing and get him to the hospital.
- bandageWound covering strip
- gauzeOpen-weave medical fabric
- woundCoiled, or an injury
- open woundUnhealed break in skin
- compressionForcing into smaller space
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- bandagesbandage, gauze, adhesive bandage, Band-Aid, wrap
- first aidbandage, bandages, first aid kit, tourniquet, gauze pads
- hemostaticsthrombin, fibrin, platelets, clotting factor, hemostat