On November 28, 2022, Our annual Bio Medical Trauma Week kicked off with an early morning visit to our football field where some fellow biomed students acted as football players who caused another player to suffer from an open tibia and fibula fracture, more commonly referred to as a "tib/fib" fracture.
We were given an ICHART (Incident, Chief Complaint, History, Assessment, Treatment, and Transportation) assessment tool and form that are used for EMS documentation. The incident was a football pile up where the athlete suffered a tib/fib compound fracture. he was found immediately laying face up on the field. Our patient was then identified as 16 y/o male, Connor. The call to EMS was as a result of the disfiguration of Connor's leg. His Mechanism of injury or "MOI" was his foot which was planted into the ground with all his body weight and another force hit the middle of his leg and pressure had to be released by cracking his bone in half and causing an open compound fracture. He was given morphine for pain and checked for a dorsalis pedis pulse, which is the pulse on your feet, and deemed stable.
After we filed out our ICHART's, our very own trainer, Mr. David Bentley, Dr. James Slauterbeck, an orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Peter Rippey, a family medicine physician and sports medicine specialist, Keri Bryant, an ER nurse, radiologist Greg Yeager, and Tony McCarron from the Mobile County Police Department came and each spoke to our class about their roles in helping Connor get back to his normal routine such as school and physical activity. It is so important to acknowledge all the people that each play a part in the rehabilitation from this type of injury as well and the many other injuries that can occur. This proves that a team where every single individual is working hard is the most effective way to handle a situation such as an open tib/fib fracture.
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