Paramedic school

Complete displacement of a bone end from it's position in a joint capsule

• Open
• Closed
• Hairline
• Impacted
• transverse
• oblique
• Comminuted
• spiral
• Greenstick-PEDS
• Epipyseal

• Pain
• pallor
• Paralysis
• Pressure
• Pulses

Feeling of tension in the limb

• Loss of distal sensation
• complains of pain
• Condidtion mores severe than mechanism of injury would indicate
• Pain on passive extension
• Pulse deficit- late sign

Protecting the wound

exposure of the injury

Proper positioning

Immoblizing the injury

Monitoring of nerovascular function

Consider any injury within 3 inches of a joint to be a joint injury

Compartment syndrome

Penetrating injury

Muscle fatigue

Muscle Cramp

Muscle Spasm

muscle strain

Contusions