A pre-hospital clinician is planning to use a pelvic binder on a patient with a suspected unstable pelvic fracture. The patient has an obvious open wound in the perineum. Does the open wound change the management?AThe patient should not be moved at all until a surgeon arrivesBYes - the wound should be packed with gauze before applying the binderCNo - the pelvic binder should still be applied at the level of the greater trochanters; open pelvic fractures have a higher mortality and require urgent surgical intervention, but pre-hospital binder application is still indicatedDNo - but the binder should be applied at the iliac crest level insteadEYes - pelvic binders are contraindicated in open pelvic fracturesCheck my answer