# Wounds & Bandages

## Injuries

Each limb on the body can receive different types of injury. Each injury has a different level of pain and bleeding that it will inflict.

Each injury type also has a set of treatment procedures that are best suited for it - these will be laid out in the subsequent chapter about rendering aid.

## Wounds

### Abrasions

Also called scrapes, abrasions are the result of friction against a rough surface. Typically caused by vehicle collisions and falling.

### Avulsions

Avulsions occur when a major structure is removed by force, such as larger types of gunshot wounds (GSW).

### Contusion

Contusions are the result of a forceful trauma that damages an internal structure without breaking the skin. Some causes include vehicle collisions and falling.

### Crush

Caused by falling or vehicle collisions, crush wounds are wounds where the skin has been split and tearing underlying structures or shattering them.

### Cuts

Cuts are slicing wounds that produce even edges and can be as minor as a paper cut or significant as a surgical incision. Primarily caused by shrapnel and explosions.

### Laceration

Lacerations are slicing wounds that produce ragged edges. Most often the result of vehicle collisions or falling.

### Velocity Wound

Caused by small objects entering the body at high speed, typically a bullet or small pieces of shrapnel.

### Puncture Wound

Deep, narrow wounds produced by sharp objects like knives or very small pieces of shrapnel.

## Bandages

### Field Dressing

Field dressing is average treatment, a jack of all trades, master of none.

### Packing bandages

Packing bandages have a higher re-opening chance than field dressings, but a longer reopening delay than other forms of treatment.

### Elastic bandages

Elastic bandages can treat any wound in just one bandage but have a much higher re-opening chance and shorter reopening delay compared to other bandages.

### QuikClot

QuikClot is a clotting agent that promotes the body's natural clotting process. It is a lot less effective than the other types of bandages, but have a significantly lower chance of reopening, and if they do re-open, they take a long time to do so.