Material
Elasticated roller bandage:
- Child’s Arm: 4-6 cm wide.
- Child’s Leg: 4-8 cm wide.
- Adult’s Arm: 6-8 cm wide.
- Adult’s leg 8-10 cm wide.
If it is used to hold a wound dressing in place, the elasticity in the bandage is not used to exert pressure but to allow the bandage to change shape so as to achieve an optimum fit on the limb.
Procedure
- Place the start of the bandage diagonally across the wrist [Figure 45].
Figure 45
- Make a circular turn around the wrist [Figure 46].
Figure 46
- Fold the protruding start of the bandage across this circular turn [Figure 47].
- This manoeuvre will prevent the bandage from twisting around the wrist and working loose when tightening the next turn.
Figure 47
- Make another circular turn.
- Make a number of spiral turns until the forearm is sufficiently covered.
- Overlap two thirds of the width of the previous turn [Figure 48].
Figure 48
- Finish the bandage with two circular turns.
- Fix the end of the bandage roll onto the last circular turn.
The circular turn has been correctly applied if:
- The limb has been bandaged in the distal to proximal direction.
- Each spiral turn overlaps two thirds of the preceding turn.
