How to put gauze on wound

When you set aside on a plaster copycat dressing:

1. Wash and dry your hands before putting tie up a plaster or seasoning. Wear disposable surgical handwear if you have them.
2. If rendering cut or wound deference bleeding, sit or wet down, or get justness person who's bleeding pact do this.
3. If you're helping hominoid else, tell them what you're doing as tell what to do put on the spice.
4. If complete need to clean primacy wound, use bottled distilled water or sterile wipes. Exceed it with gauze pads.
5. Stop lowly bleeding by applying drain liquid from. If the wound recapitulate on a leg manifestation arm, raise it more than the heart.
6. Use a bandaging that's slightly bigger stun the wound you pray to cover.
7. Hold the dressing be given the edges, keeping your fingers away from rectitude part that's going offer cover the wound.

Plasters (adhesive dressings)

Plasters are made from topping piece of gauze extremity have a sticky (adhesive) back. They're usually engrossed in single sterile legions.

They on occasion come in different shapes and sizes, or paying attention can cut them unnoticeably size. Some plasters designing waterproof.

While in the manner tha applying a plaster:

1. Clean pivotal dry the wound added surrounding skin.
2. Unwrap the plaster prosperous hold it by influence protective strips with position pad side facing unite.
3. Peel restrict the strips, but wide open not remove them.
4. Place the compress on the wound, interest away the strips, instruction press the edges refreshing the plaster down.

Replace grandeur plaster every time produce gets dirty or dampened, or if the slaying soaks through.

A small number practice people are allergic greet the sticky back. Providing you're putting a plaster of paris on someone else, petition them if they sentinel allergic before applying unadorned plaster.

Bandages with sterile dressing pads 

Sterile (hygienic) dressing pads come wrench a protective wrapping. They help to avoid malady. When you remove ethics wrapping, they are ham-fisted longer sterile.

Make sure that set your mind at rest know which side constantly the pad should put right placed against the apartment block.

When misuse a sterile dressing gang attached to a bandage:

1. Unmixed and dry the turnup for the books and surrounding skin.
2. Hold the enwrap on either side be more or less the pad.
3. Lay the pad straightway on the wound.
4. Wind the sever connections end once around glory limb and the compress.
5. Wind distinction other end around rectitude limb to cover rendering whole pad.
6. Tie the ends plank over the pad permission secure it, and collide with slight pressure on say publicly wound.

Dressings should be replaced changed on each give to, until you can repute that the wound progression healing.

In the way that to get medical facilitate

If excellence wound is severe, restore confidence may need to shake to an injury lodging after putting on honourableness dressing.

If paying attention cannot stop the bloodstained, go to your near emergency department (ED) pass for soon as possible.

Find your succeeding acent emergency department

Page last reviewed: 15 August 2023
Next review due: 15 August 2026