Year 2: Block 2I: General Trauma

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fractures
Defintion,
What causes fractures,
What are most fractures caused by
6  cards
fracture process and healing
What are the 2 ways bone can heal,
Primary bone healing,
Which fractures can heal by prima...
11  cards
fracture patterns
How many basic fracture patterns ...,
What are the 5 basic fracture pat...,
Transverse fractures
7  cards
describing a fracture
Fracture of long bone is described,
A fracture at the end of the bone...,
Intra articular have a greater ri...
15  cards
clinical signs and assessment of a fracture
4 clinical signs of a fracture,
Assessment of an injured limb,
Whats involved with assessing dis...
3  cards
investigation of fracture
Whats used to diagnose majority o...,
How many views of x ray are usual...,
What other view might be benefici...
7  cards
management of long bone fractures
Initial management,
Types of splinting immobilisation...,
What if a fracture is grossly dis...
11  cards
complications of fractures
Classified by 2 things,
Early local complications,
Early systemic complications
5  cards
compartment syndrome
Pathophysiology,
Buzzword,
Presentaion
9  cards
nerve injury
What are the 2 injuries associate...,
Neuropraxia,
Axonotmesis
15  cards
vascular injury
Knee dislocations can damage,
Paediatric supra condylar elbow f...,
Shoulder trauma can damage
5  cards
skin and soft tissue problem
Protruding bone or tension on the...,
What are clinical signs,
Management
6  cards
problems with fracture union
Clinical signs of non union,
Healing of tibial fractures,
Which fractures heal more quickly...
10  cards
other local problems
Dvt,
Fracture disease,
Post traumatic osteoarthritis
7  cards
septic arthritis
What is always septic arthritis u...,
Presentation,
How does the pathogen get into th...
13  cards
open fractures
Caused by,
What increases the risk of infection,
What increases risk of amputation
10  cards
mangled extremity
Cause,
Poorer outcomes occur in who,
In certain cases of mangled extre...
3  cards

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