How to Treat a Cut

Video Transcript

CAPT. JOE BRUNI: Hi. I'm Captain Joe Bruni, with over 30 years of firefighting and emergency medical service experience. What we're going to talk about and discuss is how to treat a cut that is pretty much minor in nature. A cut injury that's minor in nature can be treated by placing some type of sterile dressing over the cut injury and applying pressure, and holding that pressure in place for a short period of time. The patient themselves can actually hold that dressing in place with their other hand while that person applying the medical tape, tears off pieces of tape, and applies the tape to hold the dressing in place. If the bandage or dressing that's been applied becomes soaked with blood, do not remove it. Do not remove it, just apply more dressing material to the location, and keep pressure in the area, with possible elevating that body part. Remembering, to go ahead and treat a cut type of injury, it involves nothing more than applying some type of sterile dressing, applying pressure, taping it off, remembering not to remove soaked bandages, just apply more over the top, and then applying elevation to reduce blood flow to that area until medical treatment can be sought and applied.