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Can you use a sling to secure and support a fractured forearm after splinting the fracture?

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Dress and bandage the burn before the limb is splinted.


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If you have completed splinting an airmans arm fracture to apply a sling and swath?

What? If you're asking about applying a sling after splinting an arm fracture in the field, then I'd say "Yes, do that." Splinting a fractured arm helps immobilize it but it can still swing around as the patient moves and bang into things. A sling would help further.


What is the prefered method of splinting a fractured clavicle?

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You do not have any emergency aid supplies available to splint his fractured left forearm?

Improvise. SABC: obtain splinting materials (branch, strips of cloth, poncho, etc.) close by to form an expedient splint


Where do you splint a fractured lower leg?

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What will happen if a bone tibia and fibula is fracture?

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When a child's bone is fractured growth may be stimulated at the epiphyseal plate What problems might this extra growth cause in an upper or lower limb before the growth of the other limb compensates?

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