Emergency Care and Transportation of the Sick and Injured ...

Consider use of tourniquet and hemostatic dressings, per local protocol. iii. Use splints or air splints, per local protocol. ... place a gauze pad loosely under the nose. ... The blood vessels, without messages from the brain, will dilate. This leads to the characteristic low blood pressure, and flushed warm skin of spinal or neurogenic shock. ... ................
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