Skin Deep
Skin is intact, but bleeding may still be significant.
What is a closed fracture?
This structure forms a ring, not a single bone.
What is the pelvis?
This bone can hide up to 1–2 liters of blood when fractured.
What is the femur?
This check must be done before and after splinting.
What is a PMS (Pulse, Motor, Sensory) check?
This is the total number of bones in the adult human body.
What is 206?
This fracture carries a high infection risk even if bleeding looks controlled.
What is an open (compound) fracture?
Most pelvic fracture bleeding comes from this type of vessel.
What are venous vessels?
External rotation and shortening of the leg point to this problem.
What is a femur fracture?
Splinting before this step is a critical error.
What is hemorrhage control?
These bones act as levers and are most associated with hemorrhage.
What are long bones?
This fracture type may bleed more internally than an open forearm fracture.
What is a closed femur fracture?
Hypotension with no external bleeding should make you suspect this injury.
What is a pelvic fracture?
This intervention reduces bleeding and pain simultaneously.
What is traction splinting?
Splinting a limb in this position is recommended unless pulses are absent.
What is the position found?
These bones provide stability more than movement.
What are short bones?
Bone does not have to be visible for this fracture classification to apply.
What is an open fracture?
This is the correct landmark for pelvic binder placement.
What are the greater trochanters?
This associated injury would make traction splinting unsafe.
What is a suspected pelvic injury?
Pain control aside, splinting helps prevent this complication.
What is further bleeding or tissue damage?
This bone type primarily protects organs.
What are flat bones?
A tibial fracture with a puncture wound 6 inches away is classified as this.
What is an open fracture?
Why does distance from the fracture not matter?
You should apply a pelvic binder at this point in your Combat Casualty Assessment if indicated.
What is Step 2 in TFC?
A tourniquet doesn’t fix hypotension in this injury because of this reason.
What is internal hemorrhage into the thigh?
What else should you do?
You splint perfectly, but forget this step — NREMT fail.
What is reassessment? or PMS
Fracturing this bone category is most likely to kill the patient indirectly.
Fracturing this bone category is most likely to kill the patient indirectly.