“At the scene, the Paramedic Engine found the patient with a severely angulated fracture of both the tibia and fibula. The fracture site was just above the ankle. The patient was in severe pain and, to complicate matters, had been placed in a car by bystanders. Access was difficult. The paramedics found that sliding the splint around the fracture site & the foot was extremely easy. Upon applying suction, the splint completely encased the patient’s injured extremity so thoroughly that the patient exclaimed at how much the pain was relieved (this was after 8 milligrams of IV morphine had done little for the notoriously difficult-to- reduce pain of a tib-fib fracture). With the splint so securely on the patient’s lower leg, the paramedics were able to actually lift on the foot, using the splint itself as a handle point, to help get the patient out of the car!”