Urgent Bite 77 - Have you tried this Epistaxis trick?

Have any of you tried this trick to help stop an anterior epistaxis?

 

Read the paper in which I saw this tip.  Womack J, Kropa J, Stabile M.  Epistaxis, Outpatient Management.  Am Fam Physician.  2018 Aug 15;98(4):240-245.  www.aafp.org/afp/2018/0815/p240.html

 

Academic Life in EM blog page - https://www.aliem.com/trick-of-trade-epistaxis-control-with/

 

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