EMS Protocol of the Week - Bone and Joint Injuries (Adult and Pediatric)

A lot of the meat behind the protocol for bone and joint injuries was previously due to it being where to find the options for prehospital analgesia. Now that we have a dedicated pain management protocol, it’s since been thinned out a bit, but it’s still worth a skim for a review of assessment and stabilization of broken bones, as well as instructions for how to reduce a dislocated patella (if approved by OLMC – make sure they’re describing a patellar dislocation and not a knee dislocation!).

Have fun out there! www.nycremsco.org or the protocol binder for anything else you may…knee-d. Bye!

Dave