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I would have been okay with RICE. After breaking 1.5 arms (well, it felt like it, just an elbow fracture), I wish I had known about RICE. Six hours later, in A+
by Theodores 7y ago
I would have been okay with RICE. After breaking 1.5 arms (well, it felt like it, just an elbow fracture), I wish I had known about RICE. Six hours later, in A+E I get a bit of fabric and some string with the 'you've broken it mate!' serenade from the X Ray department.
Two weeks after that I watch something about sports injuries and realise how much better things would have been had I just bought some ice after my bicycle crash and got myself a cab home instead of riding the ten miles or so, up and down over a big hill.
This was with the NHS and if I was running that department I would have a big bag of ice, right there on reception with a 'help yourself' sign. People wouldn't have to wait for four hours before being seen to, not that RICE was even on offer.
RICE would have been nice, maybe with an upgrade to this MOVE thing.
- swombat 7y agoTFA explicitly excludes fractures and “catastrophic injuries” from this suggestion.
- dmurray 7y agoSounds like you'd benefit from taking a first aid course. You can see if the Red Cross offer one near you, or your local mountain rescue or lifeguard station if you live near one of those. As well as RICE you can learn some more useful skills: treat injuries and burns, administer CPR, etc. That said, for suspected broken bones an X-ray really is recommended. Depending on the nature of the fracture, you might need a cast instead of a sling and even the most experienced doctor can't tell you which until they've seen the X-ray results.