An 89-year-old female with dementia, who is being cared for by her daughter, fell and now exhibits deformity to her left upper arm. As you attempt to splint her arm, she continually screams and pulls away from you. After several attempts, your best course of action should be to:

Use a proper arrangement of splints and cast around the effected area...

Explanation:

As we can see that our patient is too old and moving her arm is causing severe pain. so, the most effective way is to immobilize the whole affected area by using Gypsum casts and splits arranged in an effective manner.

Coach the daughter on how to help apply the splint

Explanation:

By Coaching or teaching the daughter on how to help apply the splint will at least relieve the mother and reduce the fear in her because she will believe that her daughter now has better experience on how to apply the splint on her arm in order to support and immobilize the broken bone because splints is something the mother had to always wear on her arm until the bone is fully healed and set.

Therefore her daughter should be well coach on how to use or apply the split on her mother arm.

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