Homemade Bandages

[footfootfoot]

Clod is ready for the coming economic armageddon.

During one of the many first aid/CPR courses I've endured I picked up this little gem for stopping serious bleeding: maxi pads. Designed to soak up huge amounts of blood? Check. OK let's roll!

For lesser cuts? That's why they invented super glue. (true fact)

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

For lesser cuts? That's why they invented super glue. (true fact)

It only works for really sharp superficial clean cuts like a superficial knife or paper cut. Doesnt really work for deeper stuff and not safe for cuts that get dirt in it. We started to use superglue in the field about 3 years before it hit the market in the public medical sector, superglue gel works the best. You do have to reapply it every day or so. Now they sell it to hospitals for single use only at about $100 a pop. Dude who thought that up is making a pretty penny.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by footfootfoot

During one of the many first aid/CPR courses I've endured I picked up this little gem for stopping serious bleeding: maxi pads. Designed to soak up huge amounts of blood? Check. OK let's roll!

Tampons for nosebleeds. Cut the string off, though, because you'll look stupid otherwise.

For lesser cuts? That's why they invented super glue. (true fact)

Superglue was invented so construction workers could hang from girders by their hard hats. Everybody knows that.

The medical use was an afterthought.

I remember when the ERs started using "dermabond." Up until that point the appearnce of superglue in the ER was confined to the need to unsuperglue unfaithful husbands' dicks from their legs.

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

But I always imagined the medical glue was somehow more magical than your basic consumer superglue. You're saying it's the exact same stuff?

Yep. Well, there is a difference. It's like the difference between tea and zen tea. The tea will cost you around a buck. The zen tea will cost you $50, but the enlightenment is thrown in.

And that little packet of the stuff that the ER squeezes out onto your head or whereever started out sterile.