How to dress a shop wound

Step 7 Call the hospital

See how long the wait at the emergency room is.

Mine would have been four hours, so I decided to tough it out on my own.

Comments

[adome]

Hydrogen peroxide is not good for wounds. It will burn and ripped skin and kill it for sure. Iodine is what you needed.

[mreith]

Good and very bad. Good description of how to dress a wound. Bad suggestion to avoid medical intervention. The wound described might have severed the Extensor Pollicis Longus tendon. I speak as Certified Hand Therapist with 27 years of experience. I think it wise to avoid the emergency rooms--they are a horrible outcome. I would say dress you wound as you did and seek an appointment with a hand surgeon (orthopaedic or plastic) within one week. This allows you to avoid the bad care of the ER, deal with the wound, and access someone who can determine if there are deeper issues such as tendon or nerve lacerations that should be repaired. If you life in an area with nobody who is advertised as a hand surgeon, seek out an orthopaedic or plastic surgeon as soon as possible. Self-care via Instructables is cost effective, but MRSA or VRSA infections or unrepaired tendons or nerves can cost you a permanent disability of the hand. I strongly support the advice given in the instructable on how to clean and dress the wound. These are "right on". I only add that you should follow up with a hand surgeon for evaluation as soon as possible.

[bumpus]

Certified Hand Therapist? They have therapy for everything!

[I_am_Canadian]

I hope they have therapy for instructables addiction...

[Abhorsen]

I hope NOT ;-)