Emergency Medical Responders /EMR Chapter 19: Musculoskeletal Injuries
EMR Chapter 19: Musculoskeletal Injuries
This deck covers key concepts and procedures for managing musculoskeletal injuries, including types of injuries, emergency care, and splinting techniques.
When caring for patients with suspected musculoskeletal injuries, you should:
provide oxygen and maintain body temperature to help prevent shock, assess and care for all life-threatening problems first, remember scene safety and mechanism of injury.
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When caring for patients with suspected musculoskeletal injuries, you should:
provide oxygen and maintain body temperature to help prevent shock, assess and care for all life-threatening problems first, remember scene safety and...
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Before focusing on extremity injuries, which of the following injuries would you provide care for?
Open injuries to the thigh
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What body system provides body support and movement, protects organs, and produces blood cells?
Musculoskeletal system
Muscles, nerves, and blood vessels are known as what type of tissue?
Soft tissue
When a bone tears through the skin, or the mechanism of injury causes a puncture to the outer skin and damages the bone inside, it is commonly referred to as a (n):
open injury
If the bone does NOT tear through a patient's skin, the injury is called a (n):
closed injury.
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
When caring for patients with suspected musculoskeletal injuries, you should: | provide oxygen and maintain body temperature to help prevent shock, assess and care for all life-threatening problems first, remember scene safety and mechanism of injury. |
Before focusing on extremity injuries, which of the following injuries would you provide care for? | Open injuries to the thigh |
What body system provides body support and movement, protects organs, and produces blood cells? | Musculoskeletal system |
Muscles, nerves, and blood vessels are known as what type of tissue? | Soft tissue |
When a bone tears through the skin, or the mechanism of injury causes a puncture to the outer skin and damages the bone inside, it is commonly referred to as a (n): | open injury |
If the bone does NOT tear through a patient's skin, the injury is called a (n): | closed injury. |
Which of the following should be applied to all open injuries? | sterile dressing |
A bone that is broken and bends at a place other than a joint is called a (n): | deformed or angulated injury. |
The most common signs and symptoms of musculoskeletal injuries include: | pain, swelling, discoloration, and deformity. |
Signs and symptoms of muscloskeletal injuries include: | guarding, tenderness, grating. |
Some special signs to look for with injured extremities include: | leg rotating outward or inward, bulging where there is a joint or where the extremity joins the torso, pelvic pain on compression of the patient's hips. |
Emergency care procedures for injured lower extremities include: | applying a rigid or soft splint. |
All splinting of an injured bone must immobilize the injured extremity and: | the joints directly above and below the injured extremity. |
A sling and a swathe may be used for: | injuries to the elbow, injuries to the upper arm bone and forearm, injuries to the collarbone or shoulder blade. |
Padding should be used for all of the following injuries EXCEPT: | neck and back injuries. |
A properly applied splint can prevent or reduce all of the following complications of musculoskeletal injuries EXCEPT: | excessive movement. |
Before splinting an upper arm injury, you should assess all of the following EXCEPT: | pupil response. |
If there is no distal pulse, you should do_________________ if it is allowed by your EMS system. | gently realign the injured extremity |
If there is no distal pulse, after splinting, you should: | gently loosen the splint and reassess the distal pulse. |
Before rigid splints are secured to the patient, they should be: | padded with gauze or other soft materials. |
Pulling gently on an injured limb along its long axis is known as: | manual traction. |
Once manual traction is applied, it can only be released: | after a rigid splint is applied. |
All of the following are examples of noncommercial splints EXCEPT: | air splints. |
Open head injuries involve fractures of the: | skull. |
What is the minimum number of people needed to properly apply a splint? | two |
Never move a patient with spinal injuries without help UNLESS: | you or your patient are in danger. |
Prior to moving a patient during the assessment or while you dress a wound or splint an extremity, you should: | tell your patient how much it will hurt and for how long, let your patient know what you are doing and why, tell your patient what the result will be when you are finished. |
The function of the musculoskeletal system is to: | provide support, movement, protection and cell production. |
An open injury is best defined as a(n): | injury where a bone tears through the skin. |
A closed injury is best defined as a (n): | injury where the bones do not tear through the patient's skin, injury categorized by pain, spelling, and deformity |
Care for a patient with a painful, swollen, and deformed extremity includes all of the following EXCEPT: | providing cervical spine stabilization. |
Which of the following attaches to bone? | Ligaments |
Which of the following is the term that describes fractured bones grating or rubbing together? | Crepitus |
Which of the following is the best soft splint to use for a shoulder or elbow injury? | Sling |
The only time you should use the pneumatic anti-shock garment (PASG) is when the patient has a fracture of the: | pelvis and femur |