Practicals · Family Medicine · Emergency Medicine / Orthopaedics
Limb splinting and cast/POP slab application
- Type
- Procedure
- Curriculum level
- Independently or with assistance (DNB module rotation)
- Also called
- splinting, plaster of paris slab
Videos and resources
- VideoPlaster of Paris Wrist Circular Cast Application4:44
- VideoBoxer Splint Technique7:01
- +66 more links
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Where the curriculum asks for it
“splinting, application of casts, diagnosis and management of injuries, sprains” ( NMC curriculum, page 9)
“Application of P.O.P. slab and cast on appropriate patients” ( NBEMS DNB curriculum, page 65)
“Limb splinting” ( NBEMS DNB curriculum, page 69)