Talk:Bandage

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A dressing is used to stop bleeding, and a bandage is used to hold dressings, splints, and other such medical devices in place. Ergo I am changing the article to reflect these facts. Source: any mainstream medical or first aid book; I'm currently looking at Wilderness First Aid: Emergency Care for Remote Locations (ISBN 0-7637-1696-0) pp 82-83. Russell 22:14, 11 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Anyone want to explain how bandages are used in martial arts? --Brandon Dilbeck 18:44, 8 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

History of the Bandage

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).[reply]

application of badages

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)[reply]

Elastic Bandage

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)[reply]

Compression bandages

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)[reply]

Definition of Bandage

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)[reply]

Spelling

Surely, "deceive" in the definition should be "device"Librarian16 (talk) 22:04, 27 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Merger proposal

I propose that Dressing (medical), Adhesive bandage, Field dressing (bandage) be merged into Bandage. Reasons: Duplications, overlappings. Etan J. Tal^(talk) 17:12, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Merge Field dressing (bandage) to Dressing (medical), but Field dressing (bandage) needs to be cleaned up first. Merge Adhesive bandage to Bandage, but Adhesive bandage needs to be cleaned up first. QuackGuru (talk) 18:13, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
comment seems too many articles...IMO(just Merge Adhesive bandage to Bandage)--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 18:22, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Well... I haven't thought about this long enough to have a firm opinion. It seems to me that the current situation is "things used to stop leaking" separated from "things used to hold stuff in place", and the proposal is "things put on wounds". Either approach is defensible. Putting it all in one place might make it easier to deal with awkward intersections, e.g., the adhesive bandage, with is one part adhesive "thing used to hold stuff in place" and one part non-adhesive "thing used to stop leaking", and the adhesive dressing, which is a self-adhesive "thing to stop leaking", without needing a separate thing to hold anything in place.
It might also be worth looking at Talk:Adhesive bandage#Requested move 15 July 2015. One possible lesson from that discussion: objects that are familiar to people from childhood produce POVs that have more to do with emotion and personal experience/OR than with what the sources say. WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:12, 15 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
That was a friendly chat compared to the "honey bucket" debate. · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 19:08, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Also agree that there are two ways this could go; to articles per QuackGuru and Whatamidoing or they could all go under one title, keeping original titles as redirects. It might be worth merging Field dressing into Dressing and Adhesive bandage into Bandage first and then considering the secondary merge. Probably a good idea to bring in some authoritative sources for whatever tile is chosen, preferably one which is acceptable/correct on both sides of the pond. To me the difference between a dressing and a bandage is that a dressing is used to cover something and a bandage to bind something. Often used together, when a bandage is used to bind a dressing over a wound. · · · Peter (Southwood) ^(talk): 19:05, 16 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
Comments: A Good idea that is improperly listed as well as seeking the wrong target. All of the titles could be merged into Dressing (medical) without any bias or language barriers. This could include Hydrogel dressing, Hydrocolloid dressing, and Unna's boot that is a a compression dressing. See "Discussion" below. Please Note: There are comments on the talk page of Adhesive bandage but no merge template. Y Corrected: but these should have the multiple merges listed. Otr500 (talk) 07:29, 18 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

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)[reply]