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Bandaging Techniques & Types Guide

Bandages are used to provide support for medical dressings or injured body parts. There are various reasons for applying bandages, including helping dressings stay firmly on wounds, supporting hurt joints, reducing swelling, and stopping bleeding. Common types of bandages include triangular, crepe, gauze, adhesive, and there are different methods for applying them, such as circular, spiral, reverse spiral, and figure of 8 wraps. Bandages must be securely applied using tape, metal clips, safety pins, or binders, and proper principles like cleanliness and assessing circulation must be followed.

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Bandaging Techniques & Types Guide

Bandages are used to provide support for medical dressings or injured body parts. There are various reasons for applying bandages, including helping dressings stay firmly on wounds, supporting hurt joints, reducing swelling, and stopping bleeding. Common types of bandages include triangular, crepe, gauze, adhesive, and there are different methods for applying them, such as circular, spiral, reverse spiral, and figure of 8 wraps. Bandages must be securely applied using tape, metal clips, safety pins, or binders, and proper principles like cleanliness and assessing circulation must be followed.

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BANDAGING

A bandage is a material used to provide support either to a medical dressing or an injured part of the
body

The various reasons for applying bandages are:


Bandaging helps the dressing to stay firmly on the wound.
Bandaging is an effective technique to support a hurt joint.
Bandage wrapping helps to reduce swelling.
In case of a wound, bandaging helps to stop bleeding.
Bandaging helps to restrict the movement of an injured body part.

Types of Bandages:
1.TRIANGULAR- used to support and immobilize the part of the body.
2. CRAPE BANDAGE- type of woven that has the quality of stretching.
3. GAUZE or COTTON BANDAGE- use to retain dressings on wounds of fingers, hands, toes, feet, ears
eyes and head.
4. Adhesive Bandage- use to retain dressing and also used where application of pressure to an area is
needed.

METHODS OF APPLYING BANDAGES:


1.Circular- used chiefly to anchor bandages
2.Spiral- used to bandage cylindrical parts of the body that are fairly uniform in circumference, such as
upper arm and upper leg.
3.Reverse Spiral- or (spiral reverse turns) arte used to bandage cylindrical parts of the body that are not
uniformed in circumferencesuch as the lower leg or the lower fore arm.
4.Figure of 8- application of bandages on elbow, ankle and knee.

SECURING BANDAGE:
To secure bandage apply the following
1.tape
2. metal
3. safety pin
4. binders
- binders used to secure a dressing in the rectum or perineal area.
- abdominal binders ( Scultetus)
Ensure that there are no wrinkles or creases in the binder.

PRINCIPLES AND PROCEDURES IN APPLYING BANDAGES:


1. Wash hands. ( wear gloves if necessary)
2. Assist victim to assume comfortable position on bed or chair and support the body part to be
bandage.
3. Always stand in front of the part/ victim to be bandaged. Except when applying bandage to the
head, eye or ear.
4. Be sure that the bandage is rolled firm.
5. Make sure that the body part to be bandage is clean and dry.
6. Assess the skin before bandaging. For any breakdown.
7. Observe circulation by noting pulse , surface temperature, skin color and sensation of the body
part to be wrap.
8. Always start bandaging from inner to outer aspect.
9. Always start and end with two circular turns.

REFERENCE: www.slideshare.net/abdullah.sachwani/bandaging.com

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