True or False? You are caring for a 17-year-old female who fell while playing basketball and appears to have injured her right forearm. You are in the process of applying a sling to the arm. Once the sling is applied, you should tie the knot at the hollow above the collarbone on the injured side.
Answer is FALSE
Reason; it is false because knot should be uninjured side not to the injured side
True or False? You are caring for a 17-year-old female who fell while playing basketball and...
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True or False? You are providing care to a 55-year-old female who fell into some furniture and sustained an injury to her right chest. There is no indication of a spinal injury but the victim is complaining of pain and shortness of breath. She should be placed on her right side.
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True or False? You are providing care to a 22-year-old female who struck her head while playing ice hockey. Based on this information, you should also suspect spinal injury.
True or False? You are caring for a 21-year-old female who has been stabbed with an ice pick in the right chest. The victim is in a great deal of pain and is having trouble breathing. Your priority should be to remove the ice pick as quickly as possible and provide rescue breathing if necessary.
True or False? You are providing care to a 34-year-old male who slipped on a patch of ice and fell backwards, striking his elbow. The victim is holding his arm in a bent position. In order to splint the extremity, you should have him let the arm hang down from his side to find a normal anatomical alignment.
Amy Stuart is a 45 year old female who presents to ED with a right forearm fracture after falling while walking her dog. She was walking on the sidewalk in her neighborhood and accidently tripped and fell. She has an x-ray in the ED and is found to have a displaced compound comminuted fracture of the radial shaft. It is a type II open fracture. She also reports that she hit her head when she fell. ED examination confirms a...
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