Trauma Team Training/Formative Evaluation - Module 4

1 Slings decrease fracture pain and swelling

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

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

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

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

6 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

7 Shoulder dislocation is the most common major joint dislocation

8 Femoral fractures are difficult to diagnose

9 Head Injuries should be assumed in all unconsciousness trauma patients

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