The IMF is applying an external bandage to patients who have massive internal injuries.
They are applied to the wound, sealed in with a bandage and left to feed.
But that could be a flimsy bandage for a company that has been rapidly hemorrhaging.
Shadow business secretary Alan Duncan said the measures amounted to a "small bandage on a massive wound".
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They also know how to bandage up a broken player and get them back into the game.
Fenn, visibly shocked by the whole affair, displayed a huge bandage on the left side of his face.
However, patients must then wear an elasticated compression bandage more or less permanently to stop the lymphoedema coming back.
The grandfather from Wiltshire also sported a bandage after spraining his wrist while punching the holes in the fabric.
Heller's great-great-grandmother Caroline Winder McGavock tore up clothing and linens to bandage the wounded at Carnton Plantation, her nearby home.
On Thursday, television channels showed photos of Mr Omar at a hospital with a bandage around his ears and head.
Zynga becoming a commodity makes it open for examination, and there is a lot of broken bones behind all that bandage.
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For organizations not so service-oriented, attempts to detach processes from IT systems may be as painful as ripping off a fresh bandage.
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Whenever the lower hem wasn't covering up legs, tight black leggings made of bandage strips and knee-high boots covered up any skin.
"While I was putting the bandage on... he tried to say something but I couldn't understand what he was saying, " she said.
Scene Partner 2: Her right knee is wrapped in an Ace bandage.
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He also made a home-made ball out of a bandage, string and some tape, and then got grumpy when BB made him hand it in.
The one positive was I could see her wound being treated with a pressure bandage, so at least the crew was carrying some medical equipment.
Wearing sunglasses, a hat and a bandage under his neck, Sergei Filin told reporters he would feel "great, if only my eyes could see a bit better".
For nearly 15 years, I walked the floors of the Consumer Electronics Show in a business suite and comfortable flats, not stripper heels and a bandage dress.
The body of K. K. Harouni lay on the floor, wrapped in a white cloth, his jaw bound closed with a white bandage, the knot tied jauntily near one ear.
It was Diamond's turn to return to the field wearing a red bandage - McArdle having sported the look in the last two games after his own head knock against Hearts.
Max Azria wanted to infuse the metal sculptures of the artist duo Les Lalanne with the bandage silhouette of the Herve Leger line, but what he got was urban jungle-inspired armor.
Azria mixed studs, exposed zips, fur and beading with the bandage silhouette for which Leger and his namesake label are known, creating a riot of black, white and autumnal animal prints.
The report and similar accounts have ripped the bandage off a long-festering question: Why does Russia have as many children up for adoption as the U.S., a country twice its size?
Garry Wood, restored to the Inverness starting line-up as a lone striker, was in the wars early on but returned to the field of play with a bandage covering a head wound.
Having hardly sustained any injuries in the ring -- just one broken thumb -- I seriously put my back out in 2009 when I tripped over a bandage hanging out of my bag.
While we've seen a few snazzy band-aids in our day, not to mention talking first aid kits, a nanofiber bandage that can heal typical skin wounds faster is about to go mainstream.
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