What is an OLAES bandage?
Designed to cover minor wounds, apply effective pressure dressings, apply occlusive dressings and can pack severe wounds with one bandage. The bandage has 3m of sterile 4-ply gauze, a removable occlusive plastic sheet behind the dressing pad and a pressure bar that can also act as an eye cup.
What is a blast dressing?
The BLAST® Bandage was designed to provide the ability to quickly package traumatic amputations, burns, and large pattern wounds with minimal use of supplies and minimal effort. The BLAST® Bandage provides a 47cm x 47cm treatment area, but packs to about the size of a 10cm bandage. combat bandage.
When do you use an olaes bandage?
The Olaes Modular Bandage was designed to cover minor wounds, apply truly effective pressure dressings, apply occlusive dressings, and have the ability to pack severe wounds with one bandage.
What is a nightingale dressing?
The Prometheus Nightingale Dressing is an occlusive wound dressing that is much larger than most others, helping to improve adherence and provide the ability to cover larger wounds.
What is a blast dressing used for?
Designed to quickly package traumatic amputations, burns and large pattern wounds with minimal effort. The Prometheus Blast Bandage allows you to quickly package traumatic amputations, burns and large pattern wounds with minimal effort.
What is a sterile occlusive dressing?
Occlusive dressings are used for sealing particular types of wounds and their surrounding tissue off from air, fluids and harmful contaminants, such as viruses and bacteria, in a trauma or first aid situation.
What does a Russell chest Seal do?
Its purpose is to cover penetrating chest wounds to allow air to escape from the pleural cavity without being drawn back in. The aim is to minimise lung collapse associated with this injury and to facilitate lung re-inflation.
Is Xeroform an occlusive dressing?
Xeroform Gauze Dressing is a fine mesh gauze occlusive dressing impregnated with petrolatum and 3% Xeroform (Bismuth Tribromophenate). Xeroform is made for use on low exudating wounds. Non-adherent primary dressing maintains a moist wound environment.
How does the Olaes modular trauma bandage work?
By creating a pressure bandage where the application involves only gross motor skills, no direction changes around hooks or bars, the OLAES® Modular Bandage significantly offers a simpler and more effective solution in bandage dressing options.
Which is the best modular bandage for combat?
The OLAES Modular Bandage by Tactical Medical Solutions provides the most complete package available in combat trauma bandages. No other emergency bandage offers so much versatility in such a small package.
Which is the newest generation of trauma bandages?
The OLAES® Modular Bandage is the newest generation of trauma bandages and is advantageous for all levels of care providers.
Can a modular trauma bandage be used as a pressure dressing?
No other medical dressing bandage offers so much versatility in such a small package. Cover minor wounds, apply truly effective pressure dressings, apply occlusive dressings, and have the ability to pack severe wounds with one OLAES® Modular Trauma Bandage.