Haemorrhage Control
Haemorrhage Control: Principles and Cognitive Aid
Don’t Let Your Patient Bleed to Death!
Cliff Reid is back at it this time taking us through the principles of haemorrhage control and his nifty easy to follow cognitive aid to guide us through treating the most challenging of bleeding cases.
PART 1: Learn about a step wise approach to haemorrhage control in resuscitation and the first page of Cliff’s cognitive aid.
PART 2: Review specific measures in severe bleeding. From the head and neck causes, trauma management, medical bleeding and finishes off with guiding us through obstetric and paediatric bleeding management.
PART 1
Here Cliff outlines a step wise approach to guide haemorrhage control in resuscitation focusing on the following 5 principles:
- Turning of the Tap
- Getting Vascular access and Bloods
- Haemostatic Resuscitation
- Reversing Anticoagulation
- Optimising Clotting
Watch the video
Page 1 of the Cognitive Aid proforma
I can attest to the cognitive aid effectiveness. We recently were presented with an unstable massive post tonsillectomy bleeder that were struggling to get under control. We pulled out the cognitive aid…and it promoted us to apply tranexamic acid to the adrenaline soaked gauze…and bleeding rapidly settled down.
Resources
- Reid C. Haemorrhage Control Cognitive Aid [PDF]
- Reid C. Haemorrhage Control Cognitive Aid [Editable Powerpoint Slide]
Further Reading
- Reid C. Impending Doom – Help Your Patient ‘Talk and Survive’!
- Reid C. Haemorrhage Control Part 1: Principles and Cognitive Aid
- Reid C. Haemorrhage Control Part 2: Specific Measures in Severe Bleeding
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