Splinting

Types

• Hand
  • Buddy tape splint
  • Finger splint
• Arm
  • Double sugar tong splint
  • Forearm volar splint‎
  • Long arm posterior splint
  • Posterior ankle splint
  • Radial gutter splint
• Leg
  • Sling and swathe splint
  • Stirrup splint
• Sugar tong splint
• Thumb spica splint
• Ulnar gutter splint

Upper Extremity

Humerous

1. Humeral Shaft Fracture
   1. Long Arm Posterior Splint or stable-coaptation splint/unstable-elephant ear
2. Supracondylar Humeral Fracture
   1. Long Arm Posterior Splint (ortho consult for Type 2 or 3)
3. Humeral condyle fracture
   1. Long Arm Posterior Splint and ortho for ORIF if displaced
4. Olecranon Fracture
   1. Nondisplaced
      1. Sling and Swathe Splint
   2. Displaced
      1. Long Arm Posterior Splint or emerg. ORIF

Forearm

1. Radial Head Fracture
   1. Nondisplaced
      1. Sling and Swathe Splint
   2. Displaced
      1. Long Arm Posterior Splint or emerg. ORIF
2. Monteggia (ulnar shaft w/prox radioulnar disloc)
   1. Emergent ortho for ORIF
3. Galeazzi Fracture (distal radius w/distal ulnar disloc)
   1. Emerg. ortho for ORIF
4. Elbow Dislocation
   1. Long Arm Posterior Splint after reduction (if assoc. Fx-emerg. ortho)
5. Forearm Fracture
   1. Sugar Tong Splint
6. Colle's Fracture (distal radius with dist dorsal angulation)
   1. Sugar Tong Splint
7. Smith Fracture (reverse colles w/ volar angulation)
   1. Sugar Tong Splint

Hand

1. Flexor tendon injury
   1. Finger Splint + hand specialist ref.
2. Extensor tendon injury
   1. Poss ED repair + Finger Splint to hand specialist
3. Mallet Finger
   1. Finger Splint to DIP (DIP in slight hyperextension)
4. Gamekeeper's Thumb
   1. Thumb Spica Splint
5. Scaphoid Fracture
   1. Thumb Spica Splint
6. Carpal Fracture
   1. Volar Splint
7. Bennet's Fracture (intrarticular Fx at base of 1st MCP)
   1. Thumb Spica Splint
8. Rolando Fracture (comminuted base of 1st MCP)
   1. Thumb Spica Splint
9. Boxer's Fracture
   1. Ulnar Gutter Splint
10. MCP Fracture
    1. 4th and 5th
       1. Ulnar Gutter Splint
    2. 2nd and 3rd
       1. Radial Gutter Splint
11. Finger (Phalanx) Fracture
    1. Finger Splint or Buddy Tape