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  2. Summer fruit injuries are real. Here's how to prevent and ...

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    “It'll roll off the seed and you will drive the point right into your palm — and those deep palmer puncture wounds are much more prone to infection.” Also, use some common sense, says Profeta.

  3. Emergency bleeding control - Wikipedia

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    External bleeding is generally described in terms of the origin of the blood flow by vessel type. The basic categories of external bleeding are: Arterial bleeding: As the name suggests, blood flow originating in an artery. With this type of bleeding, the blood is typically bright red to yellowish in colour, due to the high degree of oxygenation.

  4. Hemostasis - Wikipedia

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    In biology, hemostasis or haemostasis is a process to prevent and stop bleeding, meaning to keep blood within a damaged blood vessel (the opposite of hemostasis is hemorrhage). It is the first stage of wound healing. Hemostasis involves three major steps: vasoconstriction; temporary blockage of a hole in a damaged blood vessel by a platelet plug

  5. Bleeding - Wikipedia

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    Bleeding can occur internally, or externally either through a natural opening such as the mouth, nose, ear, urethra, vagina or anus, or through a puncture in the skin. Hypovolemia is a massive decrease in blood volume, and death by excessive loss of blood is referred to as exsanguination . [ 2 ]

  6. Wound healing - Wikipedia

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    Timing is important to wound healing. Critically, the timing of wound re-epithelialization can decide the outcome of the healing. [11] If the epithelization of tissue over a denuded area is slow, a scar will form over many weeks, or months; [12] [13] If the epithelization of a wounded area is fast, the healing will result in regeneration.

  7. Tamponade - Wikipedia

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    Tamponade (/ ˌ t æ m. p ə ˈ n eɪ d / [1]) is the closure or blockage (as of a wound or body cavity) by or as if by a tampon, especially to stop bleeding. [2] Tamponade is a useful method of stopping a hemorrhage .

  8. Emergency Bandage - Wikipedia

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    A sterile non-adherent dressing to allow removing the bandage without reopening a wound. [2] A pressure applicator placed over the wound to stop bleeding by applying pressure. [2] It allows changing the direction of the bandage and wrapping it around the wound once in various directions. It also makes bandaging easier.

  9. Mikaela Shiffrin Suffers Abdominal Puncture Wound After ... - AOL

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    Professional skier Mikaela Shiffrin has suffered an abdominal puncture wound after crashing into a fence during a skiing event in Vermont.. Shiffrin, 29, was on her second run of a World Cup giant ...