First Aid for Abdominal Eviscerations

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My name is Alv Rios and I am a paramedic with Lansing Mercy Ambulance on behalf of Expert Village. In this clip we are going to go over talking about an abdominal laceration. That's when the organs actually come out of your stomach. This is my partner Jacob Barbor. He also works with me as a paramedic for Lansing Mercy Ambulance and he is going to be doing this on behalf of Expert Village. We are going to assume that he had a laceration across his abdomen and he now has his intestines or any other organ coming out of his stomach. What you want to make sure you do is never push the organs back into the abdomen. By doing that you are going to expose it to bacteria and different infections. Also things can be punctured or bleeding still. What you do want to do however is grab a large dressing. This is an eight by ten. It will fold out to be about the same size as a large piece of paper. What you want to make sure you do is get this nice and moist. You want to use sterile water preferably but if you don't have that just any water will do. But once you have this nice and sterile what you want to do is just place it over the organs. You want to make sure that you put it on loosely and you are not pushing the organs in at all. Once you have this in place you want to secure it. You can use something such as clean or any type of cloth to tie this in place. You want to make sure though that this is never put on tightly because you risk putting the organs back in. You want to start low and work your way high. Then again the point of this would be just hold it in place that way dirt and debris can't get into the injury site. Then by doing this it is still nice and loose. It's able to move but you are just securing the organs and moisture is there to keep the organs from drying out especially hollow organs can dry out really fast. So it's important to keep them nice and moist. You now want to get the patient to a hospital as quickly as possible so they can get surgery.

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