CASTAWAY Advanced
Plaster and fiberglass
CASTAWAY Advanced covers everything in CASTAWAY Basic, taught in both plaster of Paris and fiberglass, so your team can work confidently with whichever material your department stocks.
Like every CASTAWAY course it’s 100% hands-on: you partner up, apply each splint and cast yourself, and get coached until it’s right.
$699 per person
At a glance
- Full day: 8+ hours, 100% hands-on
- Plaster of Paris and fiberglass
- All materials, course manual and lunch included
- 5 CEU credits on successful completion
- Taught to CSOT and COA guidelines
What you'll learn
- Everything in CASTAWAY Basic
- Both plaster of Paris and fiberglass
- Upper and lower limb, start to finish
Who it's for
- Nurse practitioners
- LPNs & RNs
- Orthopaedic technologists
- Critical care paramedics
- Physician assistants
- ER physicians
- Medical students
- Ortho residents & fellows
Dates
Upcoming CASTAWAY Advanced dates
No public CASTAWAY Advanced dates right now. Most courses are run on request at a hospital.
Request CASTAWAY Advanced for your teamSample day
Upper & lower limb splinting with plaster of Paris
- 8:30
Sign-in, coffee & muffins
- 8:45
Welcome & agenda
Introduction to CASTAWAY, disclosures and the plan for the day.
- 9:00
Short arm splint, slab & cast
Demonstration, then you apply it — once as the clinician, once as the patient. Mastering plaster after displaced and reduced fractures (closed reductions).
- 10:00
Long arm splint & slab
Tricks to hold 90°. Colles' and Smith's fractures — how to reduce and immobilize each.
- 11:00
Thumb spica splint & slab
Telling apart UCL injuries, scaphoid and Bennett's fractures.
- 12:00
Lunch (provided)
- 12:45
Ulnar gutter splint & slab
X-ray interpretation, mechanisms of injury, treatment and follow-up plans.
- 1:00
Wound assessment & sugar tong
Assessing wounds associated with fractures and managing them with offloading techniques, including total contact casting (TCC). Immobilizing and reducing midshaft humerus fractures.
- 2:00
Below-knee splint & slab
Demonstration followed by hands-on application.
- 3:00
Above-knee splint & slab
Including Achilles and patellar tendon bearing (PTB) casts.
- 4:00
Assistive devices
Crutch instruction, walkers vs. scooters, ROM braces and fracture boots — donning, doffing and post-op education.
- 5:00
Exam, evaluation & one-on-one time
Feedback, tips and extra practice with AZ. If you want more practice, he'll stay as late as you need.
