Triangular cloth
The triangle scarf or shawl is a surgical dressings and part of a first aid kit .
Description and application
It has the shape of an approximately right-angled, isosceles triangle with a base length of usually a little over 1.3 m and cathetus lengths of just under 1 m. It is made of cotton or modern fiber. The color is usually natural white, black or brown olive in the military.
In Germany, the triangular cloth is standardized in DIN 13168-D with dimensions of 96 and 136 cm, in Austria in ÖNORM K 2122.
It is used in first aid as a fixation device, padding or a carrier. As a non-sterile bandage, it is unsuitable for direct wound covering. Various applications require folding the triangle shawl into a triangle shawl tie .
Triangular towels serve as bandages that are quick and easy to apply for head, chin, shoulder, elbow, hand, knee, foot and hip injuries, right up to pressure bandages . It is used to fix a sterile compress or bandage in place. The ends can be tied with a square knot . The triangular cloth is also used to immobilize fractures , as an arm sling or to make ring pads. It can also be folded into a carrying ring , which is used to stabilize foreign bodies that are speared in or to transport the patient with two helpers .
history
The Kiel doctor Friedrich von Esmarch was the inventor of the triangular scarf . He had participated as a surgeon in the Schleswig-Holstein survey of 1848/51 and the German Wars of Unification 1864-71 and later made a name for himself as a trauma surgeon and co-founder of first aid in Germany. In his book The First Association on the Battlefield , in 1869, he first presented a triangular cloth made of cotton or linen as a versatile association. Since 1873 the cloth has been produced, printed with drawings by Johann Heinrich Wittmaack , which represent a total of 34 possible uses.
literature
- Michael and Albert Buchfelder: Handbook of First Aid . Schattauer Verlag , Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-7945-2404-7 , p. 185 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
- Friedrich von Esmarch: The first association on the battlefield . Kiel 1969
Web links
- Practical application of the triangular cloth , page of the boy scouts Krefeld, accessed on February 28, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ First aid material - First aid kit B, "Vehicle first aid kit". German Red Cross , January 1, 2014, accessed September 8, 2014 .
- ^ Kerstin Nees: Great researchers from the fjord: Johann Friedrich August von Esmarch
- ↑ Dirk Ziesing: The needle gun in the first aid kit. Or: the incredible story of the triangular scarf