What is happening?

What to do

1. Leave object unmoved. Request urgent help and state wound site. Eye, neck, chest or abdomen: emergency call now. Use only relevant branch below.
2. Eye or skull dent: no pressure. Organs protruding from abdomen: no pressure or pushing back. Cover loosely with clean damp gauze. Emergency help now. Do not pack these wounds.
3. Open chest wound: emergency help, leave exposed to air. No plastic or sealing dressing. Existing covering with worse breathing: loosen/remove that covering. Leave embedded objects.
4. Stay still if the place is safe. Ask someone to stay and maintain pressure until someone takes over.
5. Say if you cannot feel or move the area beyond the wound.
6. Large object or fixed to structure: no cutting or attempted extraction. Request rescue and describe access. Support without movement only if safe. Neck: no encircling wrap or squeezing both sides.
7. After initial care: ask about tetanus vaccination. Dirt, pus, swelling/redness, worse pain or fever: urgent assessment. Do not delay emergency help to clean the wound.