EMS

Question 1

Contraindications to leg traction splints

Answer 1

Pelvic fracture, fracture, hip dislocation, neurovascular injury to the extremity, injury about the knee, concomitant tibia/fibula fracture

Question 2

What is Boyle’s law given an example to how can affect a patient transported via air?

Answer 2

The volume of a gas increases when the pressure decreases when temperature remains constant

Endotracheal tube cuff pressures will increase at higher altitudes