Lower Limb Immobilization with Vacuum Splints in out-hospital emergency

Abstract

Every day the practice of hospital emergency and urgent care, we can find extreme life-threatening situations, situations in which the training of health personnel and the skills and knowledge on use of rescue material, will determine the evolution of injuries. It is therefore our aim is to provide more information than is currently known about the technique of fixation or immobilization of fractures. The treatment of these, in most cases, will depend on the characteristics of the injury although facts that are common to all the circumstances is the initial care and management, namely, immobilization and stabilization of the lesions with the appropriate material and in order to reduce risk of alteration in other anatomical structures as a result of the fracture. This, we can achieve with the use of vacuum immobilizers or vacuum cast.