So I have a character who experiences traumatic blood loss due to a wound during a fight. The bleeding is stopped, though the guy has loss a lot of blood.
This is in a medieval theme, with a little more advanced medicine then the the late 14th century. Now it is fantasy, and so they aren't butchering people by false cures. These doctors, or healers as I call them, know what they are doing and are very skilled in their craft.
Present day we deal with traumatic blood loss with fluid resuscitation, or blood transfusion. (Just a few. I'm not a doctor and these are ones I can name off the top of my head.) But how did they deal with it in the medieval ages? Do they say your screwed and let you die, or did they have a cure or procedure that saved the patient from the inevitable?
If anyone can just say you need to visit this website, all your answers are within, that would be great. I've just had trouble trying to find out how, and google keeps on giving me bloodletting. (I want to keep the blood inside the body google, I'm trying to save the man!)
So how can I keep the guy from dying? I'll take options and opinions, and I'm open for ideas. If you need any more info, just tell me and I'll try my best answer.
Thanks
Salty
This is in a medieval theme, with a little more advanced medicine then the the late 14th century. Now it is fantasy, and so they aren't butchering people by false cures. These doctors, or healers as I call them, know what they are doing and are very skilled in their craft.
Present day we deal with traumatic blood loss with fluid resuscitation, or blood transfusion. (Just a few. I'm not a doctor and these are ones I can name off the top of my head.) But how did they deal with it in the medieval ages? Do they say your screwed and let you die, or did they have a cure or procedure that saved the patient from the inevitable?
If anyone can just say you need to visit this website, all your answers are within, that would be great. I've just had trouble trying to find out how, and google keeps on giving me bloodletting. (I want to keep the blood inside the body google, I'm trying to save the man!)
So how can I keep the guy from dying? I'll take options and opinions, and I'm open for ideas. If you need any more info, just tell me and I'll try my best answer.
Thanks
Salty