NREMT Paramedic

Category - Trauma

While en route to a patient you get report from dispatch that the patient has suffered a possible fractured ilium; through your training you know that this means they may have fractured what?
  1. Their cheekbone
  2. Their jaw
  3. Their knee
  4. Their hip
Explanation
Answer: D - The ilium is one of the bones that make up a human hip; it is the large bowl and each one makes up one side of the pelvis and forms a joint inferiorly with the femur, and this joint is known as the hip. The zygomatic bone is the cheekbone, the mandible is the jawbone and the patella is the knee bone.
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