According to the manual, how do you control serious bleeding from a crash injury while waiting for skilled help?
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A.
Rinse the wound with cool drinking water.
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B.
Apply pressure with thick cloth pads, as clean as possible. Correct
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C.
Elevate the wound above the victim's heart and wait.
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D.
Loosen tight clothing near the wound to help circulation.
The answer is "Apply pressure with thick cloth pads, as clean as possible."
The manual tells you to press thick clean cloth pads onto serious bleeding. The elevation pick in C comes from the bruise-and-sprain first-aid step drivers already know, applied here because both scenes involve blood, though the crash-scene direction is direct pressure with a pad.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Rinse the wound with cool drinking water.
The manual does not tell you to rinse the wound. This answer reaches for the wound-cleaning step from routine cut care and skips past what the manual actually names.
C. Elevate the wound above the victim's heart and wait.
Elevation is not what the manual specifies; direct pressure is. This answer applies the elevation step drivers remember from bruise-and-sprain first aid rather than the crash-scene direction.
D. Loosen tight clothing near the wound to help circulation.
Loosening clothing may help shock but is not the bleeding-control step the manual names. This answer confuses the shock-and-fainting step with the bleeding step that comes right beside it.
This question tests your knowledge of Crash Procedures in Texas. Source: Texas Driver Manual, "Aiding the Injured," p.60..
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