Pelvic Injury; Roadside to Resus
The Resus Room
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Is There an Open Pelvic Fracture?
The big giveaway, I think for all of us really in the alert and orientated cooperative patient is essentially the fact that they often complain of pain. So you want to be examining your patient and checking for any wounds in the pelvis or bleeding from the patient's rectum, vagina or urethra which could indicate an open pelvic fracture. Most patients complain of pain in the pelvic area, but that can extend to like the lower back to the groin, to the hips. But don't just necessarily think of it as being pelvic pain. You know, you need to be sort of casting your neck a bit wider than that. There was talk with them becoming the new C-spine
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