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Description: History of Thomas Splint:nnWelsh Physician Hugh Owen Thomas first described use in 1875.nReally came to use in WWI when Thomas’s nephew Dr. Robert Jones implemented it for field extraction in 1916 .Mortality for lower limb fractures dropped from 80% to less than 20% by 1918 and it is used very much unmodified to this day.nnThe goal of the splint is to improve patient care for transportby reducing pain, blood loss and secondary soft tissue injury by fracture movement.nnNotes:nn1)tAlthough i
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