Basic Treatment For Dummies: II

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Basic Treatment For Dummies

 

Book II:

Fractures

 

Fractures, a painful yet common injury among all descendants. These can happen due to too much force being put on your bones, or bending them in an unnatural and painful way. 

 

There are many different types of fractures, I will name just three of them; There are non-displaced transverse and displaced transverse fractures, a compound fracture and a comminuted fracture.

 

So how do you treat them? You don’t, the doctor does. But you can splint it and make sure it is immobilized. 

 

Section I: Transverse

  A transverse fracture is when the break is at a right angle to the long plane of a bone. This most often happens due to strong force right upon the long axis of a bone. So how do you treat this? 

 

If the fracture is non-displaced it will heal on its own with just a splint. You should still go to a doctor so they can check and make sure it is indeed a non-displaced fracture. If it is displaced, the bone will need to carefully be guided back to its place. If you are not a licenced medic I would not try to put it back in place on your own. You’ll make that fracture worse and give more work to the doctors that are there to fix you. Instead just make a splint and find a doctor. So how do you make a splint?

 

Step 1: Find something rigid such as sticks or a board.

Step 2: Align the sticks or the board along the broken body part.

Step 3: Use bandages or cloth to tie them to the broken body part in a secure way so that the arm or leg cannot be moved.

Step 4: To make it more secure if it is an arm, tie the body part up to the chest with bandages or cloth so there is less chance of movement.

Step 5: Get yourself to a clinic or a hospital.

 

Section II: Compound

A compound fracture is when the bone is sticking out of the skin and causes an open wound with bleeding. This is the most dangerous of the fractures and hardest to treat, usually ending up in amputation due to the severity of the injuries this often causes. However, the body part can be saved if the wound itself is not too severe. So what do you do if you have gotten yourself a compound wound? Follow these simple steps;

 

Step 1: Stop the bleeding by putting force on the wound with a clean cloth or bandage. 

Step 2: If you have tippen’s root herb on you, grind it up into a salve and put on the wound.

Step 3: Try and immobilize the body part using a splint.

Step 4: DO NOT TRY AND PUSH THE BONE BACK INSIDE, JUST DON’T TOUCH IT!

Step 5: Get your arse to the doctor and hope for the best as they fix you.

Step 6: You are allowed to cry. 

 

Section III: Comminuted

A comminuted fracture is often due to the crushing of the bone, causing the bone to splinter. This has become a very common injury on soldiers in Hanseti-Ruska due to the troll attacks. 

 

Like the compound fracture it will require surgery, but is much easier to treat than the compound one and does not need amputation unless the bone has splintered up to the point of no salvation. So what do you do? Make a splint and drag your arse to a hospital or a clinic.

 

 

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Written by:

HRH Prinzenas Katerina Ceciliya Barbanov, 

Assistant to the Surgeon General of Haense

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