In the pharmacy today I was called out to help dress the wounds of a patient. The patient was an gentleman in his 60s who fell over in his garden whilst gardening. He landed on a brick and grazed his forearm.
According to the patient, the wound bled for a while and he had trouble stopping it. When I looked at his dressing, I noticed that the man had pieced together 6-8 small band-aids to form a gigantic fabric to cover the entire wound. I found his method both creative as well as funny.
The assistant had already chosen a melenin dressing coupled with an elastic roller bandage keep it together. Having just done a first aid course a few months ago as part of my intern training, I tried to look as professional as possible while I searching through my hazy memory on how to wrap up the patient.
After using some intuition and general knowledge, I successfully dressed the man's wound and sent him on his way.
In a sense I found that quite exciting. I wish I got to do such unusual things each day.
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