Talk:Bandage

message: A dressing is used to stop eaten or bleending inn to me valeria c short for valeria costolionestbleeding, and a bandage is used to hold dressings, splints, and other such medical devices in place. Source: any mainstream medical or first aid book;as they say, they were put on retarded pplz heads! Emily Harrisons mom is kind! I'm currently looking at Wilderness First Aid: Emergency Care for Remote Locations () pp 82-83. Russell 22:14, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: note

message: There is a great deal on the history of a the bandage, from the middle ages where it was used in the bloodletting process to the history of the band aid.  I couldn't really find that much on real early history but with the common definition of bandage I'm sure there is some historical note on bandages earlier than the middle ages.  All well worth mentioning in this article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Fmandog85 (talk • contribs) 15:49, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of the Bandage 

message: Article needs a lot of expanding - when should you apply a bandage?   How should you apply it?  How tight should it be? etc etc - any nurses out there?  --Tomhannen 14:49, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  application of badages 

message: I'm not a medical person and am wondering if this article should link to or be merged with Elastic_bandage. Marc Kupper (talk) (contribs) 21:38, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Elastic Bandage

message: Anyone competent to correct the non-native English in this section? "This dynamic" sounds like a bad translation from sophomoric German; "is therefore not exerting" should be simple present tense, not progressive. These are clues that the terminology might not be correct either: that's why I'm not going in there to fix it myself. Wegesrand (talk) 11:06, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Compression bandages

message: There may be a better, more technical definition of what a bandage is, but my layperson's idea is "a piece of cloth that covers (partially or entirely) a wound". According to this definition, butterfly stitches should be classed as bandages, and they don't have enough detail to need their own article. Can anyone think of a better definition, or a good reason why having butterfly stitches as their own article would be better then shoot, but I think that it's a good idea.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChildOfLore (talk • contribs) 01:16, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of Bandage 

message: Surely, "deceive" in the definition should be "device"Librarian16 (talk) 22:04, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 

message: This is an improperly structured "Merge Request". The templates have errors, which is confusing, and will lead to a "No consensus" closing at best. There is a need to merge articles but not to the requested target. 
*Field dressing (bandage) could be merged into Dressing (medical) without any controversy. 
*Adhesive bandage is just a type of bandage (self sticking) and the article states a small medical dressing. See "Dressing (medical)" below on language concerns. 
*Dressing (medical): A "Dressing", concerning "wounds", is used in American English and British English. I also found the terms listed in Australia and New Zealand, so this would have negated any objections because of differences in national varieties of English.
*Bandage: A type of medical dressing. This article has been around since 2003 without a single source, so obviously no inline references, and is an ideal merge candidate. 
*Hydrogel dressing: Could be merged into "Dressing (medical) without any controversy since it is a type of medical dressing.
*Hydrocolloid dressing: Another type of medical dressing. Both articles are the subject of an improper Merge request
*Unna's boot: As stated above this is a "compression dressing" and the "Stub-class" article is tagged concerning references. 
:The idea that there may be "too many articles" listed would be if there was confusion, or controversy, which does not appear to be the case. There just needs to be a discussion to find common ground. The articles (all) need work, and it would be better, since every single one of the above are forms of medical dressings, to merge to a proper non-controversial title. 
:Cleaning up Wikipedia can never be a bad thing. We can not use MOS:RETAIN as an objection to keep an unsourced article like this one (2003) that is completely against more than one policy or guideline. How about let's all see if there can be some collaboration, without politics, to effect major improvements? Otr500 (talk) 07:14, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: basic first aid 77.246.53.147 (talk) 23:19, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  basic first aid