Day 3- First Aid 2- 11/14/2014

Welcome, future doctors of America or any where you live. My name is Nate, and welcome back to Med Ed, the blog that can teach you how to save a life in a few clicks and some of your time. How's everyone doing? Anyway, welcome to first aid part 2, broken bones. This post is brought to you by little dots. Little dots, making papers organized since forever.

• First up is an ankle or wrist. If your patient has just fallen down a hill and twisted an ankle, here's what to do. If you are close to society, help them to a place to rest, ice the wound, and get some help. Notice, if you are out in the woods or something, do not take off their shoe as the foot will not fit back into it, giving them half the walking speed and double the effort. For wrists, use a sling. Tie it behind their neck and give the arm and wrist some support. They should be good from there. Remember to also ice it. 
• Second, we're taking on the back and neck. If your patient is taken a tumble down the stairs, here's what you have to do. First of all, don't move the injured person. Moving them risks further injury to the back or neck. Call 911. There's no way for you to help them anymore besides get them out of danger.
• Third of our first aid for broken bones list is ribs. Mr. Patient fell of a small cliff onto a rock shattering his ribs. What do you do? Tell them to keep breathing even if it hurts. If they don't, they could get pneumonia in the long run. After which, get help. 911 is a good place to check. They usually squeeze life threatening injuries into their schedule. Also, they may suffer from internal bleeding. You can't do much about that, though.
• Finally, we come to legs. Straighten the fracture out and splint it. Call for help.