For those who are wondering, I believe they are using a tubular bandage (sometimes called tubinet dressing) with an applicator. I came to the comments to see if there was any mention of whether they used a smaller size of tubular bandage or if it’s kind of all the same size, but no luck. I’m doing research myself but so far, that’s what I’ve seen the dressing and applicator called.
“It’s not the bandage’s fault but rather the poor usage of it is to blame,” chief surgeon Deng Wei told CEN. “If bandages must be used, we must remember to keep the end of the finger showing, so we can see that the finger is still a normal color.”
Yue Tue, 4, of Suzhou City in east China’s Jiangsu Province, was playing when she bit her finger and it began bleeding. Her grandmother, Feng Cheng, 60, secured a bandage with an elastic band around Tue’s finger to try to suppress the blood. Two days later, Tue’s finger became swollen and turned black. “[My granddaughter] said it didn’t hurt anymore and she couldn’t feel anything in her finger,” Cheng told CEN. “I realized something wasn’t right so immediately took her to hospital.” Doctors’ examination found that the blood vessels had been so badly damaged that the only way to stop the dead tissue from spreading was to cut the finger off. 🤮🥺🥺🤮🤮🤧
