Plaster Casting Techniques II

Different parts that make up the upper extremities of human being. Plaster casts used for the management of bone fractures of upper extremities such as Colle’s plaster cast, Scaphoid plaster cast, Bennet plaster cast, below elbow cast, Hanging cast U’ cast. Different parts of the lower extremities of the human being. Plaster casts used for the management of bone fractures of the lower extremities of human. Materials used to make the plaster casts of the lower extremities. making of the following plaster cads of the lower extremities of the human being; Boot plaster cast, below knee cast, Above Knee cast, High above Knee cast cylinder cast, Counsel patients after plaster cast application. Wedging and need for wedging a dry cast; materials used for wedging of a cast. Supportive devices in plaster casting; materials used in making the supportive devices such as heel raising wooden, block for weight bearing leg plaster cast, walking stick, pairs of crutches, collar & cuff bandage; function/ uses of the supportive device; maintain supportive devices; identify complications that may arise from the use of supportive devices listed in above. Technique of wedging of plaster casts; wedge plaster casts; define synthetic plaster bandage. identify the synthetic plaster. identify the tools used in synthetic plaster cast; chemical components of synthetic plaster bandage. Difference between plaster of paris and synthetic plaster bandage. Application of synthetic bandage to make a plaster cast; moulding a synthetic plaster on a limb. Cast bracing; purposes of cast bracing. Different metal braces used in cast bracing. Making of braces: femoral cast bracing, tibial cast bracing. Spica; different types of spica such as: Shoulder spica, Single (unilateral) hip spica, Double (bilateral) hip spica, One and a half hip spica; different types of spica. Apply plaster spica to patients; counseling patient in plaster spica. Different parts of human body trunk. Body jacket cast; different types of body jackets such as: Modified Minerva body jacket, Full minerva body jacket, Halo-pelvic body jacket; uses of body jackets; making different body jackets. Counseling patients in body jackets. Sarmiento plaster cast; uses of sarmiento cast; materials used in making sarmiento cast; procedure of making a sarmiento cast. counsel patients and clients on sarmiento cast. describe frog cast. Indications for frog cast; materials required for making frog cast. Parts of human hand. Volar Slab Cock-up splint and their uses; difference between Volar Slab and Cock-up Slab (Splint); materials used for: Volar slab, Cock up splint, Make – Volar slab and Cock up splint. Materials required in making traction embedded in plaster cast; process of making traction embedded in plaster cast; application of traction embedded in plaster cast. Plaster bed. Indications for plaster. Materials required for making plaster bed.