Finger injuries

Personal protective equipment (PPE) can help reduce the frequency and severity of hand and finger injury. Although fingers are harder to protect, they can be shielded from many common injuries. Personal protection is available in the form of gloves, mitts, finger cots, thimbles, hand pads, sleeves and hand lotions or barrier creams. 

If you are faced with handling a more serious hand or finger injury, like an amputation, act quickly. Severed limbs can often be reattached. Control heavy bleeding or shock first. Keep the severed part cool, but do not freeze it. Do not apply a torumiquet rmless you have received training in how and when to do so. 

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Hand and finger injury from handled objects. 

Trigger finger An industrial injury caused by a constriction of the tendon characterized by the inability to bend or straighten a finger. 

In addition, clay wedging, throwing, and building can cause hand and wrist injuries, including median nerve damage resulting in carpal tunnel syndrome (identified by numbness in the thumb and first three fingers). 

Musculoskeletal Assess extremities for deformities, swelling, lacerations, or other injuries. Palpate distal pulses for equality, rate, and rhythm compare with central pulses. Ask child to wiggle toes and fingers evaluate strength through hand grips and foot flexion/extension. 

A patient with a corneal abrasion typically reports a history of recent ocular trauma, such as being struck by a flying object or by a finger striking the eye. Patients with intermediate to large corneal abrasions usually seek treatment within 24 hours of the injury because of the significance of their symptoms. 

Exposure to the primary beam of powder diffraction units is a major concern. In fact, the greatest risk of acute accidental exposures from analytical systems occurs in manipulations of the sample to be irradiated by the direct beam in diffraction studies. Exposure rates on the order of 10,000 R/s ( 4xl0 R/h) can exist at the tube housing port. At these levels, erythema would be produced from exposures of only 0.03 second and permanent injury could be inflicted in only 0.1 second. The fingers, of course, are the part of the body most at risk from such high exposures. 

One way to break an opponent s hold on you is to quickly thrust one or two extended fingers into the small indentation at the base of his throat (Hg. 16). The blow is painful and causes him to gag and cough. Severe injury could result if the thin layer of skin at this point is pierced. 

Splinter hemorrhages. Thin, linear hemorrhages found under the nailbeds of the fingers or toes. These lesions are not specific for IE and more commonly are the result of traumatic injuries. 

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