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What If You Cut Off A Finger
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Don't worry, I haven't cut a finger off, i'm just trying to brush up on my first aid, and I have forgotten this bit!
Don't worry, I haven't cut a finger off, i'm just trying to brush up on my first aid, and I have forgotten this bit!
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I'm rather worried by the initial 'pack it in ice' advice. If you pack a severed finger directly in ice it will suffer tissue damage from 'frostbite'. You need to keep it cool but not actually frozen!
As a qualified first-aider who has actually encountered the problem (during my teaching days, when a colleague chopped off two of his fingers with a circular saw), I can tell you that (despite carefully packing the fingers in a Tupperware box) it's not always possible for a hospital to successfully reattach them.
As a qualified first-aider who has actually encountered the problem (during my teaching days, when a colleague chopped off two of his fingers with a circular saw), I can tell you that (despite carefully packing the fingers in a Tupperware box) it's not always possible for a hospital to successfully reattach them.