Revision question · Incidents, accidents and emergencies

You arrive at the scene of a crash where someone is bleeding heavily from a wound in their arm. Nothing is embedded in the wound. What could you do to help?

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Walk them around and keep them talking

Dab the wound

Get them a drink

Apply pressure over the wound

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Apply pressure over the woundThis was the right answer

If possible, lay the casualty down. Protect yourself from exposure to blood and, when you're sure there's nothing in the wound, apply firm pressure using clean material.

Reviewed reading for this question

Direct pressure for severe bleedingReviewed guidance summary · Both prompts explicitly exclude an embedded object; the guide retains the safety exception rather than teaching pressure indiscriminately.

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