Where can I find patient instructions for wound care and eye dressings?
This is the manual that the Air Force uses to teach all airmen how to do fast, proper, “battlefield” dressings. It goes into how you should dress different types of injuries including fractures, sucking chest wounds, shock, and several other things. (Including eye wounds) It’s perfect for people that are not in the medical profession because it shows you how to be creative and use what you have around you to save the persons life and/or limb. For eye dressings first and foremost if there is something impaled, DO NOT REMOVE IT!!!! The best thing to do is poke a hole in the bottom of a plastic cup and put the end of the impaled object through it. Then use an ace bandage or strips of cloth to wrap around the cup and the entire head to hold everything in place. Next very important thing. ALWAYS wrap both eyes. You do this because both eyes almost always move together. So if you only wrap one eye when the other move the patient will be in lots of pain. Here is a link to one of the SABC manu
