When a fracture patient comes to the first aid clinic writhing in pain, is he given a pain shot immediately?
Question by friend: When a fracture patient comes to the first aid clinic writhing in pain, is he given a pain shot immediately?
I am trying to understand a medical procedure.
My friend recently broke his lower leg after falling from a train and was immediately taken to a rural small clinic nearby.
When I reached there after about 1/2 hour of the incident he was not writing in pain, but I was told that when he was brought there he was shrieking. His outer wounds were minimal and were dressed. But he would shriek if anyone touched his leg.
The nurse gave him a butt shot of pain killer 15 minutes after I reached there.
I now wonder if the nurse had given one shot of pain killer earlier (as soon as he arrived), because otherwise how come my friend was not writhing in pain. But his pants were still on and the belt was tight when I reached there (which had to be opened to give the shot), so it seems he had not been given that shot earlier.
What is the normal practise in India for giving first aid to fracture victims?
Do you think he would have received the shot earlier too? and his belt tightened back on?
It was a small clinic run by nurses with no doctors in it. My friend was the only patient there.
Best answer:
Answer by mark
a painkiller doesnt need to be injected in his butt. Thats simply a convenient place for an injection that should go into muscle .
They could have given him a pill or an injection into an arm or leg.
They must have done something with his pants in order to dress the wounds.
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