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  • How long should a wound bleed

    • Mild bleeding usually stops on its own or slows to an ooze or trickle after 15 minutes of pressure.

  • Mild bleeding usually stops on its own or slows to an ooze or trickle after 15 minutes of pressure.
  • Bleeding can't be stopped after 10 minutes of firm and steady pressure; Blood spurts out of wound.
  • If blood spurts from the wound, or it does not stop bleeding after.
  • You can't stop the bleeding after 15–20 minutes of pressure (keep putting pressure on the cut until your child gets help).
  • Learn about the stages of wound healing, how to tell if it's infected and what to do if you have a cut, scrape or chronic wound that's not healing.

    • If blood spurts from the wound, or it does not stop bleeding after....

    ‘If It Dries It Dies’: A Surgeon's Guide to Wound Care

    Surgical (or closed) wounds: When you have stitches

    In this category, I would place ‘any wound with stitches.’ So if you have had surgery with me, or if you sustained a cut that was stitched closed at an urgent care, this is the protocol I would follow.

    While the debate rages even amongst surgeons as to the exact duration, you will want to keep the wound completely covered for an initial period of time.

    For me, this is 5 days.

    After stitching up your wound, I place your hand or arm in a sterile dressing.

    This completely sterile environment gives your wound a nice clean headstart to its healing process.

    Even though you have stitches, think of all the little gaps between the stitches where bacteria could theoretically get in to infect your wound.

    Let those seal up over 5 days before exposing the incision to the outside world.

    This means the bandage has to stay completely intact and dry during this time. Yes, that means wrapping a plastic bag around the wound or buying one of these newer ‘cast bags’  (example l

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