In a scene from The Blacklist, one of the characters uses a lighter on a wound to “cauterize” it. It looks painful but works. What exactly is it and is it actually done in medical scenarios?
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Cauterizing is essentially using heat to burn a wound closed. It definitely doesn’t heal the wound, but it *does* make it so you won’t bleed to death through it. Of course, now you have a burn wound to take care of on top of whatever damage was caused by the injury, but at least you’re not leaking.
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