Bone fracture types [for Star Wars fans]
GO C3PO:
- Greenstick
- Open
- Complete/ Closed/ Comminuted
- Partial
- Others
*Note: C3P0 is droid in the Star-Wars movies.
Bryant's traction: position
- BrYant's traction:
- Bent Y.
*Patient's body is the stem of the Y laying on the bed, and legs are the ends of the Y up in the air.
Carpal tunnel syndrome: treatment
WRIST:
- Wear splints at night
- Rest
- Inject steroid
- Surgical decompression
- Take diuretics
Forearm fractures: bone in Monteggia vs. Galeazzi
- Monteggia is fracture of ulna.
- Therefore, Galeazzi is fracture of radius.
Fracture: description
BLT LARD:
- Bone
- Location on bone
- Type of fracture
- Lengthening
- Angulation
- Rotation
- Displacement
Fracture: how to describe
PLASTER OF PARIS:
- Plane
- Location
- Articular cartilage involvement
- Simple or comminuted
- Type (eg Colles')
- Extent
- Reason
- Open or closed
- Foreign bodies
- disPlacement
- Angulation
- Rotation
- Impaction
- Shortening
Monoarthritis differential
GHOST:
- Gout
- Haemarthrosis
- Osteoarthritis
- Sepsis
- Trauma
Osteosarcoma: risk factors
PRIMARY:
- Paget's
- Radiation
- Infaction of bone
- Male
- Alcohol, poor diet, sedentary lifestyle [adults only]
- Retinoblastoma, Li-Fraumeni syndrome
- Young [10-20 yrs]
*Osteosarcoma is the most common primary malignant tumor of bone.
Pagets disease of bone: signs and symptoms
PANICS:
- Pain
- Arthralgia
- Nerve compression / Neural deafness
- Increased bone density
- Cardiac failure
- Skull / Sclerotic vertebrae
Sacroiliitis: causes
PUB CAR:
- Psoriasis
- Ulcerative colitis
- Behcet's disease
- Crohn's disease
- Ankylosing spondylitis
- Reiter's disease
Salter Harris fracture classification
Salter Harris, modified to SALTR:
- type 1: Slipped epiphysis
- type 2: Above the eiphyseal plate
- type 3: Lower than the eiphyseal plate
- type 4: Through both above and below eiphyseal plate
- type 5: Raised epiphysis, as in a compression injury
*Salter Harris classification utilises visualising long bone distal portion with diaphysis superiorly placed and epiphysis inferiorly placed.