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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Jul 21, 2014 15:33:12 GMT
anyone have a good guide or fancy teaching me the intricacies of creating a compound fracture for a scenario we have coming up?
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Post by Princess Lae-rdal on Jul 29, 2014 15:36:17 GMT
A quick and easy low budget one would be to make up some "schkin" - plenty of recipes on the web, but basically it's petroleum jelly mixed with cornflour til you get a kind of smooth dough. I colour mine with drops of red/yellow food colouring til it matches the manikin.
Apply a lump of it to the arm or leg, smooth the edges to blend in. I usually keep the cornflour nearby as the heat of your hands can make it quite sticky.
Cut the lump of schkin with the back of a knife or a wooden tongue depressor or similar. Add a broken chicken bone (boiled to clean it) to the gap, the add loads of fake blood in the gap and round about.
If you make decent amount of the schkin it keeps for ages in a tub with an airtight lid.
PS. I always apply a layer of vaseline topped with clingfilm, or a large piece of tegaderm to the manikin under any "wound" to minimise staining.
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Aug 14, 2014 8:27:43 GMT
cool, I'll get SimSolo onto this
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Sept 2, 2014 21:23:54 GMT
scenario was a helicopter crash, we ended up having an amputated foot, hanging on by the skin, using an old (manikin) leg, no bone but looked decent enough, still have it so will get a bone and add for next time
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Post by Manikin Skywalker on Dec 4, 2014 16:15:46 GMT
found a bone fragment in an old cannulation arm, looks perfect for compound fractures :-)
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