Trauma Team Training/Formative Evaluation - Module 4

Slings decrease fracture pain and swelling

Splints are safer then casts because they are less likely to cause compartment syndrome.

Compromise of the vascular supply to an extremity in a cast maybe caused by a tightly applied cast.

Fractures of the clavicle require an X-ray for diagnosis.

Fractures of both bones of the forearm can be treated with a short arm cast

In the management of an open (compound) fracture: Immediately dress the wound, leave debridement until the next day , start oral antibiotics and refer to the orthopedic surgeon the next week

Shoulder dislocation is the most common major joint dislocation

Femoral fractures are difficult to diagnose

Head Injuries should be assumed in all unconsciousness trauma patients

Positioning to prevent aspiration of a head injury patients is not important