Time: 20 mins
Personnel Required: 2
Equipment Required:
1. 2 bedsheets
2. adequate analgesia
3. If adding procedural sedation, end tidal CO2 + monitor
Steps:
1. Assistant: Wrap 2 bedsheets around torso at the neck-clavicle junction of injured side.
2. Assistant: Apply counter-traction with bedsheets.
3. Operator: Grasp the patient's wrist, may interlock your elbow with the patient's elbow to use as a fulcrum in applying axial traction.
4. Operator: Apply further arm adduction as necessary.
5. Place reduced arm in shoulder sling and perform a neurovascular exam.