Splinting
Types
- Hand
- Arm
- Leg
Upper Extremity
Humerous
- Humeral Shaft Fracture
- U-shaped coaptation splint (upper arm sugar-tong splint) + sling and swathe
- Supracondylar Humeral Fracture
- Long Arm Posterior Splint (ortho consult for Type 2 or 3)
- Humeral condyle fracture
- Long Arm Posterior Splint and ortho for ORIF if displaced
- Olecranon Fracture
- Nondisplaced
- Displaced
- Long Arm Posterior Splint or emerg. ORIF
Forearm
- Radial Head Fracture
- Nondisplaced
- Displaced
- Long Arm Posterior Splint or emerg. ORIF
- Monteggia (ulnar shaft w/prox radioulnar disloc)
- Emergent ortho for ORIF
- Galeazzi Fracture (distal radius w/distal ulnar disloc)
- Emerg. ortho for ORIF
- Elbow Dislocation
- Long Arm Posterior Splint after reduction (if assoc. Fx-emerg. ortho)
- Forearm Fracture
- Colle's Fracture (distal radius with dist dorsal angulation)
- Smith Fracture (reverse colles w/ volar angulation)
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
- Scaphoid Fracture
- Carpal Fracture
- Bennet's Fracture (intrarticular Fx at base of 1st MCP)
- Rolando Fracture (comminuted base of 1st MCP)
- Boxer's Fracture
- MCP Fracture
- 4th and 5th
- 2nd and 3rd
- Finger (Phalanx) Fracture