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Medical assistant is preparing a patient for a cast application. What actions should the medical assistant...

Medical assistant is preparing a patient for a cast application. What actions should the medical assistant take before the provider can administer the cast?

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> This isnt completely true. Medical assistants can be trained and authorized by a physician to place casts.
Combat medics can and are authorized to place casts. I place casts.

Aleathea Pagtakhan Mon, Feb 28, 2022 6:37 AM

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Ans) No, Medical assistants are legally authorized only to remove casts, splints and other external devices. Placement of these devices does not fall within the medical assistant's scope of practice.

So they should not prepare for cast application.

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