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can labelled ‘local anaesthetic’? 
Spray that on to the area.”
Kiran groans. “It stings! It’s so cold”
Doctor Fong says, “It’ll start working in about 30 
seconds… there…? Is that better…?” Kiran nods. 
“Right Skylar. Are you ready? Do it.”
You use the hand gel to clean your hands and 
then rip open the haemostatic gauze and a strong 
chemical smell fills your nose. You pull it apart and 
start stuffing it into Kiran’s arm. They wince and 
moan. You look into their eyes but they nod. “Go 
on, it isn’t too bad!” You keep going, then cover it in 
normal gauze and hold your hands down on it hard 
like you were told. You keep them there for two 
minutes and then take your hands away.
The bleeding has stopped!
You laugh in relief. At first, Kiran looks at you angrily 
but you point and then they smile. And gasp. And 
then laugh and cry again. You wind a bandage tight 
round their arm, tying a knot at the end.
Kiran looks at you scared as you hold up the phone 
and point the squeezy bottle at the arm. You nod 
and they screw up their face as they pull their hand 
away. You feel sick as blood wells up and you spray 
the saline into the wound. Kiran squeals but you 
can see that the wound is deep and there is a blood 
vessel pumping into it. Doctor Fong, speaks loudly 
to be heard.
“Ok, the good news is that it is not bad enough for 
a tourniquet but we’re going to have to pack it with 
haemostatic gauze.”
“What’s that?” you ask.
“It’s in the bag marked ‘blood kit’ in a black packet 
about 1cm thick. It’s a kind of fabric mesh that has 
chemicals in it that will force the blood to clot.”
You root through the kit as Kiran looks at you, 
crying. You find it. Doctor Fong says, “Well done. 
Now in a minute, you’re going to have to pack it 
into the wound. Have some normal gauze and a 
bandage ready. It’ll be super painful so let’s get 
some pain killers on first. You see the yellow spray 

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