Musculoskeletal Injuries
1. List four basic types of musculoskeletal injuries?
2. Identify the mneumonic to follow in caring for musculoskeletal injuries and describe each step.
3. Under what conditions do you not elevate an injury?
Injuries to Extremities
1. When splinting, what are you trying to immobilize when treating an injury to a bone? How about an injury to a joint?
2. What is the first and last thing you do when splinting?
3. Describe the steps when applying a splint.
4. Describe what injuries or when you would use a rigid splint? a soft splint? an anatomic splint?
5. Identify the two signs of a femur fracture.
Injuries to Head, Neck and Back
1. List the signs and symptoms you might see in a head, neck or back injury?
2. What is the purpose of manual stabilization? How do you form manual stabilization?
3. If you have a scalp injury that is bleeding and the area is soft and spongy, how do you control bleeding?
4. How do you care for someone who has a tooth that has been knocked out?
5. An object becomes embedded in the cheek, why do we remove it in this case, the only case where an embedded object is removed?