Dress and bandage the burn before the limb is splinted.
Dress and bandage the burn before the limb is splinted.
how should a burn be treated on a fractured limb
The same way you'd treat any other burn.
Dress and bandage the burn before the limb is splinted.
To reduce pain and prevent further damage, and to keep bone from moving
Not necessarily. It can be treated. In many cases though, the limb may have to be amputated. Each case is different.
If the tibia or fibula bone is fractured, they will need to be healed. A doctor will put the limb in a cast to help them heal.
Extra growth in one limb due to a fracture may lead to limb length discrepancy, where one limb is longer than the other. This can cause difficulties with movement, balance, and alignment, potentially leading to joint pain, back problems, and gait abnormalities. Treatment may involve monitoring growth, and in severe cases, surgical intervention to equalize limb lengths.
- when the patient is infant or younger (regardless of size etc) - when the burns are 'full thickness' - when the burn covers a full limb
Traction is a pulling force exerted on a limb in a distal direction in an effort to return a bone or joint to normal alignment.
Depending on then burn the reaction could be anything from death to dropping an injured limb, it's really dependant on the nature of the injury.
I have terrible pain in my feet & legs & legs are swollen