Curbside Consultation in Fracture Management : 49 Clinical Questions.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editor -- Contributing Authors -- Introduction -- Foreword -- Section I: Upper Extremities -- Question 1: I Have a 50-Year-Old Male With a Surgical Neck Humerus Fracture in His Dominant Arm Should I Operate on Him? -- Question 2: What Approach Should I Use for Plating a Humeral Shaft Fracture in a Multiple Trauma Patient? -- Question 3: How Would You Manage a Radial Nerve Palsy Associated With a Humeral Shaft Fracture in the Dominant Arm of a 25-Year-Old? -- Question 4: On Which Clavicle Fractures Do You Operate? -- Question 5: What Is Your Postoperative and Rehabilitative Protocol for Distal Humeral Fractures? -- Question 6: I Have a 4-Year-Old Who Fell Off the Monkey Bars With a Swollen Elbow and a Fat Pad Sign If the X-Rays Are Normal, Is Additional Evaluation Needed? -- Question 7: How Do You Perform a Fasciotomy of the Forearm? -- Question 8: Cast, External Fixator, or Open Reduction and Internal Fixation for a Nonarticular Distal Radius Fracture in a 60-Year-Old Female? -- Question 9: When Do You Replace the Radial Head? -- Question 10: There Is a Patient in the ER With a Femur Fracture and Humeral Shaft Fracture Should I Fix the Humerus With a Nail or a Plate? -- Question 11: I Have a 30-Year-Old Patient Who Had a Posterolateral Dislocation of the Elbow How Would You Treat Him? -- Section II: Lower Extremities -- Question 12: My Patient is 8 Years Old and Had a Salter-Harris III Fracture of the Distal Femur How Long Should I Follow Him for Growth Abnormalities? -- Question 13: What Is Your Initial Evaluation of Pelvic Fractures? -- Question 14: Which Pelvic Fractures Are Life-Threatening? -- Question 15: How Do You Decide Which Pelvic Fractures Need Surgery?.

Question 16: I Have a 40-Year-Old With an Anterior Fracture of the Femoral Head and Incongruity of the Hip Joint How Would You Treat This? -- Question 17: I Have a 26-Year-Old in the ER With a Displaced Femoral Neck Fracture Do I Need to Perform an Open Reduction and Capsulotomy? -- Question 18: What Is Your Choice for a Displaced Femoral Neck Fracture in a 65-Year-Old: ORIF, Hemiarthroplasty, or Total Hip Arthroplasty? -- Question 19: How Would You Treat a Varus Femoral Neck Nonunion in a 50-Year-Old? -- Question 20: What Is Your Postoperative Management of Hip Fractures in the Elderly? -- Question 21: How Would You Treat a Femur Fracture in a 6-Year-Old? -- Question 22: How Would You Treat a Femur Fracture in a 12-Year-Old? -- Question 23: I Have a 38-Year-Old With a Femoral Shaft Fracture Treated With an Antegrade Nail With No Evidence of Healing 8 Weeks Postop What Should I Do? -- Question 24: What Is the Best Technique for Nailing a Femoral Shaft Fracture in a 28-Year-Old? -- Question 25: I Have a Tough Time With Subtrochanteric Fractures Any Tricks? -- Question 26: When Do You Use a Spanning Fixator Across the Knee? -- Question 27: What Is Your Postoperative Management of Patellar Fractures? -- Question 28: What Is Your Postoperative Management of Tibial Plateau Fractures? -- Question 29: I Have a 45-Year-Old Female With a Bicondylar Tibial Plateau Fracture What Type of Fixation Should I Use? -- Question 30: What Is Your Criteria for Compartment Syndrome in the Tibia? -- Question 31: What Are Your Tricks for Nailing Proximal and Distal Tibial Fractures? -- Question 32: I Have a 38-Year-Old Female With a Distal Tibia Spiral Fracture Should I Try to Nail This or Just Plate It? -- Question 33: What Is Your Preoperative Management of a Bad Pilon Fracture? -- Question 34: How Do You Decide Which Surgical Approach to Use for Pilon Fractures?.

Question 35: Do You Take Out Syndesmotic Screws in Adult Patients? -- Question 36: I Have a Male Patient With a Trimalleolar Fracture, But the Posterior Malleolus Is Minimally Displaced Do I Need to Fix It? -- Question 37: What Is Your Postoperative Protocol for Bimalleolar Ankle Fractures? -- Question 38: I Have an Insulin-Dependent 52-Year-Old Female With a Minimally Displaced Bimalleolar Ankle Fracture Should I Treat Her in a Cast? -- Question 39: On Which Calcaneal Fractures Do You Operate? -- Question 40: There Is a Patient in the ER With a Displaced Talar Neck Fracture What Is the Technique for Fixation? -- Question 41: Which Metatarsal Fractures Need Surgery? -- Question 42: Do You Ever Bone Graft Acute Fractures? -- Question 43: I Have a 34-Year-Old Male With a Nonunion of a Plated Midshaft Tibia Fracture How Do You Approach This Problem? -- Question 44: How Do I Treat a Child With a Twisted Ankle and Normal X-Rays? -- Question 45: How Do You Assess Compartment Syndrome of the Foot? -- Section III: General Fracture Care -- Question 46: I Have a 38-Year-Old Male in an MVC With Multiple Orthopedic Injuries Should I Fix Everything Now or Do Damage Control Orthopedics? -- Question 47: Do Bone Stimulators Work on Nonunions? -- Question 48: When Do You Use Locking Plates? -- Question 49: Which Fractures Require Anatomic Reduction? -- Index.

Curbside Consultation in Fracture Management: 49 Clinical Questions provides quick answers to the thorny questions most commonly posed during a "curbside consultation" between orthopedic surgical colleagues.

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