Splinting: Difference between revisions
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##LAPS and ortho for ORIF if displaced | ##LAPS and ortho for ORIF if displaced | ||
#Olecranon fracture | #Olecranon fracture | ||
## | ##Nondisplaced S&S, displaced LAPS or emerg. ORIF | ||
===Forearm=== | ===Forearm=== | ||
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##Sugar tong | ##Sugar tong | ||
#Colle's Fx (distal radius with dist dorsal angulation) | #Colle's Fx (distal radius with dist dorsal angulation) | ||
##Sugar tong | ##Sugar tong | ||
#Smith Fx (reverse colles w/ volar angulation) | #Smith Fx (reverse colles w/ volar angulation) | ||
## | ##Sugar tong | ||
===Hand=== | ===Hand=== | ||
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##finger splint to DIP (DIP in slight hyperextension) | ##finger splint to DIP (DIP in slight hyperextension) | ||
#Gamekeeper's thumb | #Gamekeeper's thumb | ||
##thumb spica | ##thumb spica | ||
#Scaphoid Fx | #Scaphoid Fx | ||
##Thumb spica splint | ##Thumb spica splint | ||
#Carpal Fx | #Carpal Fx | ||
##volar splint | ##volar splint | ||
#Bennet's Fx (intrarticular Fx at base of 1st MCP) | #Bennet's Fx (intrarticular Fx at base of 1st MCP) | ||
##thumb spica | ##thumb spica | ||
#Rolando Fx (comminuted base of 1st MCP | #Rolando Fx (comminuted base of 1st MCP | ||
##thumb spica | ##thumb spica | ||
#Boxer's Fx | #Boxer's Fx | ||
##Ulnar gutter splint | ##Ulnar gutter splint | ||
Revision as of 23:17, 6 March 2012
Treatment
Upper Extremity
Humerous
- Humeral shaft fracture
- LAPS or stable-coaptation splint/unstable-elephant ear
- Supracondylar humeral fracture
- LAPS (ortho consult for type2 or 3)
- Humeral condyle fracture
- LAPS and ortho for ORIF if displaced
- Olecranon fracture
- Nondisplaced S&S, displaced LAPS or emerg. ORIF
Forearm
- Radial Head Fx
- Nondisplaced S&S
- Displaced-LAPS or emerg. ORIF
- Monteggia (ulnar shaft w/prox radioulnar disloc)
- Emergent ortho for ORIF
- Galeazzi Fx (distal radius w/distal ulnar disloc)
- Emerg. ortho for ORIF
- Elbow dislocation
- LAPS after reduction (if assoc. Fx-emerg. ortho)
- Forearm Fx
- Sugar tong
- Colle's Fx (distal radius with dist dorsal angulation)
- Sugar tong
- Smith Fx (reverse colles w/ volar angulation)
- Sugar tong
Hand
- Flexor tendon injury
- finger splint/hand specialist ref.
- Extensor tendon injury
- poss ED repair/finger splint to hand specialist
- Mallet finger
- finger splint to DIP (DIP in slight hyperextension)
- Gamekeeper's thumb
- thumb spica
- Scaphoid Fx
- Thumb spica splint
- Carpal Fx
- volar splint
- Bennet's Fx (intrarticular Fx at base of 1st MCP)
- thumb spica
- Rolando Fx (comminuted base of 1st MCP
- thumb spica
- Boxer's Fx
- Ulnar gutter splint
- MCP Fx
- Gutter splint (4th and 5th-ulnar, 2nd and 3rd-radial)
- Phalynx Fx-finger splints with buddy tape