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| Angelina Total Posts: 130 | Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 05:01 am Bone fracture types [for Star Wars fans] Quote: GO C3PO: Greenstick Open Complete/ Closed/ Comminuted Partial Others · Note: C3P0 is droid in the Star-Wars movies Pagets disease of bone: signs and symptoms Quote: PANICS: Pain Arthralgia Nerve compression / Neural deafness Increased bone density Cardiac failure Skull / Sclerotic vertebrae Fracture: how to describe Quote: 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 Salter Harris fracture classification Quote: 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 Carpal tunnel syndrome: treatment Quote: WRIST: Wear splints at night Rest Inject steroid Surgical decompression Take diuretics Monoarthritis differential Quote: GHOST: Gout Haemarthrosis Osteoarthritis Sepsis Trauma Osteosarcoma: risk factors Quote: 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. Sacroiliitis: causes Quote: PUB CAR: Psoriasis Ulcerative colitis Behcet's disease Crohn's disease Ankylosing spondylitis Reiter's disease Fracture: description Quote: BLT LARD: Bone Location on bone Type of fracture Lengthening Angulation Rotation Displacement Nonunion of bones: differential Quote: You need a SPLINT: Soft tissue interposition Position of reduction (too much traction, immobilization, or movement) Location (eg. lower third of tibia slow to heal) Infection Nutritional (damaged vessels or diseased bone) Tumor (pathological fracture) Fracture: describing (short version) Quote: DOCTOR: Displaced vs. non-displaced Open vs. closed Complete vs. incomplete Transverse fracture vs. linear fracture Open Reduction vs. closed reduction Forearm: fractures Quote: "Break the forearm of the MUGR (mugger)": Monteggia=Ulna Galeazzi=Radius |