Femoral neck fracture

This Blog Post was originally published on the platform "writelier" (formerly "co-writers" and "200wordsaday"). Sadly the blogging platform was discontinued. I downloaded all my blog posts and prepared them to be republish them here.

I was volunteering as paramedic today. My co-drive and I were relatively early at our home base and so it wasn’t surprising that we would get the first mission in the morning.

Before breakfast and before my morning coffee we had to drive to a house to collect a patient. The only information we had was that the patient fell and couldn’t move anymore.

We found a women in her eighties lying on the kitchen floor. Her son and his wife found her. After a quick checkup we decided that we had to move her on the vacuum mattress.

She had some sever pain, but we decided against an emergency doctor as the pain was only there when she turned around.

So we fixed her inside the vacuum mattress and got her inside the ambulance vehicle.

After the X-ray we knew we did good with using the vacuum mattress. Her femoral neck was fractured. The nurse showed me a trick how that can be easily diagnosed: one of her feet was shorter way shorter than the other.

As I have written before, I don’t know what happened after the X-ray but I’m thankful that my co-driver and I decided correctly.

Such a severe fracture can kill you, because there is much space to bleed into inside the thight.