Chapter 28 Review

Chapter 28 Review

There will be 25 Multiple Choice questions and a diagram of the skeletal system on this test. To do well, you should look over the objectives for the chapter, the questions at the end of the chapter and the chapter review.

·  What makes up the musculoskeletal system?

·  What types of bones are there in the musculoskeletal system?

·  What are ligaments, tendons and cartilage?

·  What are the different types of muscle in the body? Where is each found? What are their functions?

·  What bones make up the upper extremities? Lower extremities? Head? Torso?

·  What are some complications of bone fractures?

·  What do you do if your patient has a painful and swollen extremity injury? How can you tell if it’s broken or just sprained?

·  What is the difference between a direct, indirect and rotational force that causes injury?

·  What is the difference between a fracture, strain and sprain?

·  What is the difference between an open extremity injury and a closed extremity injury?

·  When would you use a traction splint?

·  What care do you provide in the examination of a painful, swollen extremity in a conscious patient?

·  What do you do for a critically injured patient with many injuries? What if you patient is critically injured, including a fracture to the forearm with protruding bone ends?

·  What should you do before and after splinting?

·  What do you do if the fracture is angulated? What if you cannot detect a distal pulse?

·  What are the principles of splinting? What complications can arise form properly splinting an extremity?

·  If your patient has an injury to the elbow, how would you splint it? What if the injury is to the shoulder?

·  What would you use the MAST or PASG for fracturing? What complications would you suspect if your patient had a fractured pelvis?