Just cauterized a bleeder

Charlie Mike

Charlie Mike

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With my cigarette.
 
Usually cauterizing is a bad idea, unless you're using the high tech cauterizers designed for surgery. Dumping gun powder into a wound and cauterizing it (ala Hollywood) and other field expedient methods simply mean that you have a cut and now a burn to take care of.
 
I would think cauterizing with something other than a cigarette would've been a much better idea. Methinks infection might set in.
 
Mike, I think you're awesome for doing it.
















Of course... This thread is useless without pics!
 
michaelmcgo said:
Maybe all of us should pack a few cigs in our FAK's in case we get a bleeder ;)...
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you can also use the tobacco from the cig to pack the wound, the nicotine acts as a vasoconstrictor to help stem the bleeding. Probably not sterile, and possibly a waste of good tobacco that you could smoke and then use the ember to cauterize.
 
A cigarette? I just let my knife cook on the grill for about 20 min, works much better.
 
Call me crazy but I just use band-aids, or duct tape, or glue.
Just as effective and alot less painful.
 
It wasn't too bad, just a scab that got torn off by a hyperactive puppy!
 
Here in the boat construction industry many people just pour acetone on a wound a time or two.
It evaporates so quickly it often dries up the wound.
My theory is that many of these boat builder brilliant ideas with chemicals common in the industry contribute towards the lunacy/senility of the old timers.
Seems to be more than a few boat guys with liver issues, too.
Hmmm... wonder why that is?
 
termiteslayer said:
Here in the boat construction industry many people just pour acetone on a wound a time or two.
It evaporates so quickly it often dries up the wound.
My theory is that many of these boat builder brilliant ideas with chemicals common in the industry contribute towards the lunacy/senility of the old timers.
Seems to be more than a few boat guys with liver issues, too.
Hmmm... wonder why that is?
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Haha, boaters with a liver problem? No way!

My more medically inclined friends have advised me that alcohol / acetone are, in fact, not good ways to clean wounds, and that I should just use soap and water. I've taken their advice more lately now.
 
cmdionne said:
you can also use the tobacco from the cig to pack the wound, the nicotine acts as a vasoconstrictor to help stem the bleeding. Probably not sterile, and possibly a waste of good tobacco that you could smoke and then use the ember to cauterize.
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I would strongly advise against packing any wound with tobacco. Defintley not sterile. Not even the smoke from it is sterile. The following is a cut and paste:


The microbiological composition of tobacco products was studied using culture and chemical analysis (of tobacco leaves) or chemical analysis only (tobacco and tobacco smoke). The chemical analyses utilized gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for determining 3-hydroxy fatty acids, muramic acid, and ergosterol as markers of respectively lipopolysaccharide (LPS), peptidoglycan, and fungal biomass. Mesophilic bacteria dominated in both fresh and cured tobacco leaves; a range of additional bacteria and fungi were also found albeit in minor amounts. The peptidoglycan and LPS concentrations were approximately the same in tobacco leaves as in cigarette tobacco. The concentrations of the measured microbial components were much lower in some cigarettes locally produced in China, Korea, and Vietnam than in cigarettes of international brands purchased in the same countries, and the concentrations in the smoke were in general agreement with the concentrations in cigarette tobacco. No differences in microbial load in tobacco of "light" and "full flavor" cigarettes were seen. Storing cigarettes at high humidity resulted in elevated levels of fungi in the cigarette tobacco leading to increased ergosterol concentrations in the smoke. The fact that tobacco smoke is a bioaerosol may help to explain the high prevalence of respiratory disorders among smokers and non-smokers exposed to second hand smoke since the same symptoms are also commonly associated with exposure to bioaerosols.
 
My Hispanic mother had Filipino step dad. He dipped Cope and put it on Mom for every cut.
 
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