Bandages
When dressings are called materials from which a medical bandage is made. They are also used as dressing material or colloquially as dressing (s) and are part of first- aid kits .
According to the German BVMed , bandages are "medical products that stop bleeding, suck up exudates , clean wounds, protect against external influences, promote granulation , create, preserve or restore a wound climate that promotes healing , support, bandage , cover, compress, apply medication" and " Prevent or relieve pain ”.
A further distinction can be made between sterile or at least low-germ wound dressings and non-sterile fastening material. However, there are also ready-to-use, combined combinations of wound dressing and fastening material. For fastening material are ribbon-like bandages ( gauze , Ideal bonding , elastic bandages , stockinette binding ) and Dreieckstücher . Ready-to-use compilations are first aid kits and first aid bandages .
The requirements for the individual types of bandage are usually standardized, for example by DIN in Germany and by ÖNORM in Austria (see individual articles).
literature
- Rescue service: Norms - DIN pocket book 257. 2nd edition. Beuth, Berlin / Vienna / Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-410-14558-3 ; CD-ROM, 2004, ISBN 3-410-15843-X
Individual evidence
- ^ Bandages - prescribing in Germany . In: bvmed.de. BVMed eV, May 15, 2008, accessed on April 18, 2020 .