Forearm injury are very serious. There may have been a fracture/fractures from the punch, severed tendons, muscles, ligaments, infection obviously. The forearm is made of several tiny muscles and tendons that go to the finger. Another possibility is compartment syndrome which can be very painful. The patient needed, Xrays, open surgery for debridement (search for foreign bodies, a piece of glass?) and treatment of any fracture then antibiotics. Ceftriaxone is a broad spectrum antibiotic that is given intramuscularly or intravenously. When given IM, it is mixed with water for injection or lidocaine 1% and injected deep into a muscle. When given IV, the medication is diluted in 250 or 500ml of normal saline (depending amount of medication) and dripped slowly into the bloodstream. It is never given IV push. ....and yes, I am a doctor and terribly shocked at this waste of life
Your story was an opening eye to me. Am Nurse but what that woman did was dreadful
Forearm injury are very serious. There may have been a fracture/fractures from the punch, severed tendons, muscles, ligaments, infection obviously. The forearm is made of several tiny muscles and tendons that go to the finger. Another possibility is compartment syndrome which can be very painful. The patient needed, Xrays, open surgery for debridement (search for foreign bodies, a piece of glass?) and treatment of any fracture then antibiotics. Ceftriaxone is a broad spectrum antibiotic that is given intramuscularly or intravenously. When given IM, it is mixed with water for injection or lidocaine 1% and injected deep into a muscle. When given IV, the medication is diluted in 250 or 500ml of normal saline (depending amount of medication) and dripped slowly into the bloodstream. It is never given IV push. ....and yes, I am a doctor and terribly shocked at this waste of life
Thank you for your professional analysis. It was indeed a waste of precious life based on ignorance.