Abstract: A plurality of devices are provided for dressing wounds, injuries, and inserted intravenous (IV) catheters on a body portion of a patient. Each device has a pressure plate for being positioned in engagement with the wound, injury, or inserted IV catheter, and at least one securing strap to secure the pressure plate in engagement therewith. An embodiment having a bandage secured to an elongated pressure plate with a flexible center portion may be applied to a wound in the area of a body joint. Another embodiment having a bandage secured to each of two pressure plates may be applied to a wound comprising first and second wound areas located in the same general lateral portion of a body portion. Still another embodiment having a raised portion at one end of the pressure plate generally shaped to correspond to the external portion of an inserted IV catheter may be applied to secure the IV catheter.