This video shows you the very basics of wound packing for junctional hemorrhage using regular gauze or a hemostatic agent such as Quickclot Combat Gauze or Celox. Severe bleeding is something we have to address quickly in the treatment of a trauma patient but we can't always apply a tourniquet. If the area of injury is close to the core of the body you won't be able to get a tourniquet above the injury to occlude the artery and stop the bleeding. So you will have to resort to packing the wound with gauze or a hemostatic agent like Quickclot. By wound packing, we are putting direct pressure on the area of injury and occluding the bleeding artery while giving the body time to form a clot. The hemostatic agent just speeds up the clotting process which helps stop bleeding faster. This can still be done with regular gauze if a hemostatic agent such as Quickclot Combat Gauze or Celox Gauze is not available.

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