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This is the booklet "If Crisis Or War Comes" which Sweden just distributed to each of its residents. The booklet has been issued 5 times since the end of WW2 (rib.msb.se)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

How to apply a simple pressure dressing is part of the basic medical training course, which is mandatory to get a driving licence in Germany.

Anything that such a dressing can't stop does require professional help and will kill you, crisis or not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This isn’t a dressing, it’s literally saying to push down on the wound and hold yourself there until paramedics arrive.

[–] dustyData 9 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That's the correct thing to do. If you neglect to do that and try to rush the person on to a car or something without proper pre-hospital care training, the person will just bleed out in the car. Whatever a pressure dressing won't help, won't be stopped without an operating room by a surgeon.

A person with a bleed will survive for much longer staying put with proper pressure over the wound than a person being moved about. Oftentimes, people in panic also forget to call for help. Most first aid preparation is about drilling people to stop panicking and actually call for those who can and know how to help. Crisis, War or not, you are, most likely, not a surgeon or a paramedic, and you don't have a surgery room in your house. There's nothing that a pamphlet can correct in that case.