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A dressing is used to stop eaten or bleending inn to me valeria c short for valeria costolionestbleeding, and a bandage is used to hold dressings, splints, and other such medical devices in place. Source: any mainstream medical or first aid book;as they say, they were put on retarded pplz heads! Emily Harrisons mom is kind! I'm currently looking at Wilderness First Aid: Emergency Care for Remote Locations (ISBN 0-7637-1696-0) pp 82-83. Russell 22:14, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone want to explain how bandages are used in martial arts? --Brandon Dilbeck 18:44, 8 October 2006 (UTC) ( theodore is weird)[reply]

History of the Bandage[edit]

There is a great deal on the history of a the bandage, from the middle ages where it was used in the bloodletting process to the history of the band aid. I couldn't really find that much on real early history but with the common definition of bandage I'm sure there is some historical note on bandages earlier than the middle ages. All well worth mentioning in this article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fmandog85 (talk • contribs) 15:49, 19 January 2007 (UTC).[reply]

application of badages[edit]

Article needs a lot of expanding - when should you apply a bandage? How should you apply it? How tight should it be? etc etc - any nurses out there? --Tomhannen 14:49, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Elastic Bandage[edit]

I'm not a medical person and am wondering if this article should link to or be merged with Elastic_bandage. Marc Kupper (talk) (contribs) 21:38, 1 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Compression bandages[edit]

Anyone competent to correct the non-native English in this section? "This dynamic" sounds like a bad translation from sophomoric German; "is therefore not exerting" should be simple present tense, not progressive. These are clues that the terminology might not be correct either: that's why I'm not going in there to fix it myself. Wegesrand (talk) 11:06, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Definition of Bandage[edit]

There may be a better, more technical definition of what a bandage is, but my layperson's idea is "a piece of cloth that covers (partially or entirely) a wound". According to this definition, butterfly stitches should be classed as bandages, and they don't have enough detail to need their own article. Can anyone think of a better definition, or a good reason why having butterfly stitches as their own article would be better then shoot, but I think that it's a good idea. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChildOfLore (talk • contribs) 01:16, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling[edit]

Surely, "deceive" in the definition should be "device"Librarian16 (talk) 22:04, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal[edit]

I propose that Dressing (medical), Adhesive bandage, Field dressing (bandage) be merged into Bandage. Reasons: Duplications, overlappings. Etan J. Tal(talk) 17:12, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]


Discussion

This is an improperly structured "Merge Request". The templates have errors, which is confusing, and will lead to a "No consensus" closing at best. There is a need to merge articles but not to the requested target.

The idea that there may be "too many articles" listed would be if there was confusion, or controversy, which does not appear to be the case. There just needs to be a discussion to find common ground. The articles (all) need work, and it would be better, since every single one of the above are forms of medical dressings, to merge to a proper non-controversial title.
Cleaning up Wikipedia can never be a bad thing. We can not use MOS:RETAIN as an objection to keep an unsourced article like this one (2003) that is completely against more than one policy or guideline. How about let's all see if there can be some collaboration, without politics, to effect major improvements? Otr500 (talk) 07:14, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

basic first aid[edit]

basic first aid 77.246.53.147 (talk) 23:19, 19 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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