Today’s Morning Report is presented by Dr. Youn! OPEN FRACTURES Definition: any fx that communicates with an overlying disruption of skin and soft tissues Initial assessment: still the ABCs (including pulses, hemorrhage control) Key history: mechanism, time course of event Physical exam: neurovascular status of injury, degree of Read more…
This was an elderly woman who fell. This is a very difficult case and even with the 12 other views that were offered it was difficult to tell which way the fracture was displaced. This was read by radiology as “Transverse fractures of the left distal radius, ulna and ulnar Read more…
Please describe this fracture below, who ever describes this fracture most accurately will win the amazon gift certificate.
Thank you to Dr. Aherne for this edition of Morning Report, Gamekeeper’s Thumb/Skier’s Thumb Injury to the Ulnar Collateral Ligament (UCL) of the thumb True gamekeeper’s thumb is a chronic condition, due to repeated valgus force on MCP joint while killing or carrying game, leading to insufficiency of the Read more…