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What types of are bleeding and first aid for them

Venous bleeding

Venous bleeding occur when superficial and deep wounds of any size, in which disrupted the integrity of the subcutaneous or intermuscular veins. This raises a rather intense bleeding. Clinically to identify venous bleeding can these symptoms:

  • Dark blood;
  • The bleeding is very strong-type constant flow of blood from the wound;
  • Decreases when pressing the area below the wounds.

Venous bleeding is extremely dangerous, if not timely medical assistance. In this case, in a short time occurs massive blood loss, up to a state of shock. They rarely stop on their own, so to neglect their stop is not worth it. The superficial veins of the bleeding is less intense, damage to the deep – cause profuse bleeding.

Unlike external bleeding, in which it is impossible not to notice their symptoms, internal, more insidious. Because to recognize them is not so easy. They usually show up at the already large blood loss. It is therefore essential to know all the possible signs of this dangerous condition. These include:

  1. General weakness and drowsiness;
  2. Discomfort or pain in the abdomen;
  3. Unexplained decrease in blood pressure;
  4. Rapid pulse;
  5. Pallor of the skin;
  6. The appearance of pain in one half of the neck that occurs in a horizontal position and decreasing in vertical (symptom roly-poly).

The emergence of internal bleeding is preceded by closed or penetrating trauma to the abdomen, waist, rib fractures, stab-stab or gunshot injuries. When this occurs, damage to internal organs, which causes the violation of the integrity of blood vessels and bleeding. As a result, accumulation of blood in the abdominal cavity, the chest, soaking her damaged body or visceral adipose tissue (hematoma).

Such bleeding can progress with lightning speed, but can increase over several days after injury. It all depends on their intensity and the amount of damage the injured body. Usually suffers spleen, rarely liver. At one stage they rupture the bleeding occurs immediately when dvuhmomentnaya rupture first occurs blood a hematoma, which is broken in a few days, causing an instantaneous weighting of the patient's condition.

Gastrointestinal bleeding

If you look to the end, this type of bleeding can not be classified unambiguously. Because the blood flows into the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract, but it is in contact with air. But it's not as important as the detection of the symptoms of this condition. Because of the timing sometimes depends on the patient's life.Signs of gastrointestinal bleeding can be considered:

  1. General weakness and dizziness;
  2. Rapid pulse, and reduced pressure;
  3. Pallor of the skin;
  4. Vomiting blood or brown mass;
  5. Liquid bloody or thick black stools.

Gastrointestinal bleeding happens when peptic ulcer, neoplastic disease, and various necrotic processes in the mucosa of the digestive tract and certain other diseases. Therefore, the people with such pathology must be aware of the possibility of development of hemorrhage and in case of their occurrence have to seek medical help.

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What to do for bleeding

Treatment strategy should be differentiated and depends on the specific bleeding. There is a General level of activities which must be performed in any of its form. All the specific manipulations are targeted because of their incorrect rendering may cause harm to the patient. Shared events with bleeding include:

  1. Put the victim in a horizontal position;
  2. To follow consciousness, pulse and blood pressure;
  3. Washed the bleeding wound with hydrogen peroxide and apply a clean pressure bandage;
  4. To apply cold to the source of the bleeding;
  5. To transport the patient to the nearest facility.