KEY POINTS
1. Musculoskeletal injury: definition.
2. Classification of musculoskeletal injury.
3. Open and closed musculoskeletal injury.
4. General signs and symptoms of musculoskeletal injury.
5. General principles of first aid for a musculoskeletal injury.
6. Dislocations: definition.
7. Classification of dislocations.
8. Main signs and symptoms of dislocations.
9. Dislocation complications.
10. General principles of the first aid for a different types of dislocations.
11. Sprains: definition.
12. Symptoms of sprains. Complications of sprains.
13. General principles of the first aid for a sprains.
14. Strains: definition.
15. Symptoms of strains.
16. General principles of the first aid for a strains.
17. Fractures: definition.
18. Classification of fractures.
19. Main symptoms of fractures.
20. Complications of fractures.
21. General principles of the first aid for a fractures.
22. Methods of temporary control of a hemorrhage accompanying fractures and dislocations.
23. Immobilization: definition and classification.
24. Splints, bandages, slings: definition and classification.
25. Commercial and improvised splints.
26. Traction splints.
27. Self-splinting.
28. Splinting complications.
29. General rules of immobilization.
30. Immobilization of dislocations.
31. Immobilization of fractures.
32. Immobilization and transportation of victim with a spinal fracture.
33. Immobilization, and transportation of victim with a pelvic fracture.
34. Immobilization, and transportation of victim with a rib fracture.
35. Providing an appropriate physiological position for immobilization.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS
Instructions: Each question is followed by a series of possible answers or choices. Read the question and decide which answer or choice is the best.