Ex 1 Wk 2 ORTHO Flashcards
Orthopaedics (342 cards)
Role of orthopaedic surgery
- definition
- meaning
- timeline
- Surgical and non-surgical management of the musculoskeletal system.
- Ortho = straight Paedis = child
- Up until about 40 – 50 years ago, most orthopaedic treatment was non-operative
- Now it is the treatment Arthritis, carpal tunnel, spinal stenosis, knee injuries, fractures, scoliosis, etc. (not just making a kid straight again)
- Major subspecialties include Total Joints, Hand, Sports, Pediatrics, Tumor, Spine, Foot and Ankle, Trauma, Geriatric
How to do an effective orthopaedic physical exam
- what is most important diagnostic tool?
- what makes up most of physical exam (2)
- components of physical exam (6)
- HPI (History of present illness); The most important diagnostic tool is talking to the patient. Key points; age, duration, inciting event, specific location, previous treatment, expectations and goals.
- Physical exam; 98% is anatomy and biomechanics.
- Components of physical exam
- Inspection; seeing is believing - have pt change to gown. check for Swelling, deformity, open wounds, masses, wrinkles, odors, bleeding
- Palpation; odd bone movement, tenderness, what does it feel lik e- soft, smooth, hard, mobile, crunchy?, temperature - warm, clammy, blanching? Neurovascualr exam
- ROM; passive and active. any restrictions, crepitation, apprehensions
- Strength; weakness due to pain or true weakness?, grade 1-5 (No 0)
- Neuro; reflexes? sensation?
- Special tests; body part specific
Most important diagnostic test in orthopaedics
why ?
X-RAY
- Reading the X-rays will give you a better understanding of the fracture, the fixation, and what you can do to it.
- It will allow you to see if there are any changes in the fixation
**Look at it yor self. Trust no one
- NEVER look at films before H&P –May cloud your physical exam
- Use your history and exam to guide you
- Get the right films (minimum 2 views at 90 degrees to each other)
- Don’t accept poor films –Centered on injury
- X-ray joint above and below injury
- what can you see on X-ray?
**2 classes (3 each)
•Radio-opaque items
–Bones
–Some soft tissues
–Hardware
•Radio-lucent items
–Air
–Sutures
–Ligaments
Tips of reading X-ray
- Check what 2 things to prevent mistake
- What views are you seeing? (3)
- Skeletally mature or immature?; old or young pt
- What bone is involved?; term for bone in hand? feet? what bone has many promineses? prominences?
- What part of the bone is involved?; bone divided to what 3 parts
- Fracture type?; what fx require lowest energy? highest energy? poorly tolerated? how many view to see dislocation?
- Does it involve the joint?
- Check the person’s name and date on the film
- What views are you seeing? (AP, lateral, oblique)
- Skeletally mature or immature; mature has no growth plates. you see immature in kids (growth plates present)
- What bone is involved? e.g metacarpals in hand, matatarsals in foot. scapula has many prominences (glenoid, coracoid process, acromion, spine). Tibia or fibula (not tibular/fibia)
- What part of the bone is involved?; long bone fractures described by dividing bone into 3 (EMD) - epiphyseal, metaphyseal or diaphyseal. Is it intraarticlar?
- Fracture type?; transverse, obliqe, spiral (lowest energy reqired) , comminuted (highest energy required). Displaced, anglation, rotation (twisted along axis of bone) - rotational malunion is poorly tolerated**. Dislocation - you need 2 views to see a dislocation (whether it was anterior or posterior)
- Does it involve the joint?
Describe the fracture
AP and lateral view of an ankle in skeletally mature individal with displaced communuted intraticlar fracture of the distal tibia
Trama evalation
ABCs
- Airway – speaking??
- Breathing – intubate?
- Circulation – PULSE, stable BP? vascular access?
- Disability – can patient move extremities?
- Expose – clothes come off, and patient is inspected
- Fix dinner……
- Go to movie……
- …
- …
- Orthopaedics; It is not “OMG, there’s a fracture, call orthopaedics!!”**It is not a life threatening emergency in the first hour
When examining trauma patient, what is the first thing to get if patient is conscious
HISTORY (for conscious patient)
- Sometimes hard to get from the patient – most should be known by the time Ortho is involved
- Mechanism (history)
- Medical Hx/surgical Hx
- Medications/allergies
- Social: drug use, tobacco, EtOH, vocation/education/social
- Pertinent ROS: neurologic, musculoskeletal, constitutional, mental
To examine trauma patient ; what must you do?
**3 standard x rays for trauma
- what is gold standard to dx fracture
- what 2 actions will clear soft tissue c-spine? exception?
- what do you do for joint fractures
- pelvis/acetabulum?
- H&P is important
- You need to touch your patients. Start from head and work your way down
- 3 xrays for standard trama; lateral C-spine, chest, pelvis. • PALPATION and MOTION clear soft tissue c-spine as long as there are no distractions (like long bone fraccture)***
**XRAY IS GOLD STANDARD OF FRACTURE DIAGNOSIS; Get the joint above and below the fracture – always!!
- Joint fractures get CT’s
- The pelvis/acetabulum gets a CT with thin cuts; If hip is dislocated, CT after the hip is reduced
Routine xrays
**what is recommended with hip dislocation or acetabular fracture
- X-ray (routine):
- C-spine – going the way of the dodo
- CXR – still popular
- A/P pelvis – forever and always!. Acetabulum – Judet views (with rotation if possible). Pelvic ring – inlet/outlet views
**Hip dislocation or acetabular fracture - CT with thin cuts and reconstructions AFTER the hip is reduced.
Upper extremity exam (4)
- Brachial Plexus (C5-T1); Associated injury patterns
- Vascular (sbclavian, axillary, brachial, distal radial/ulnar)
- Soft tissue integrity
- Peripheral nerves; Median, Radial, Ulnar
**Know the 30 second upper extremity evaluation
**Unconscious – be aware: Expanding hemtoma – ST disassociation or The “compartment syndrome” (next talk)
Devastating injury of upper extremity and can be fatal
- can’t move arm - you think it’s clavicle fracture but it’s not
**Can bleed to death
Scapulothoracic disassociation
- Devastating and often missed initially!
- Alert patient who can’t feel/move UE
- Check the vascular status! Expanding Hematoma!!. Hypotension can soon to follow – and be too late
- Beware “The Clavicle fracture” in the intubated patient
- Arterial findings may be your first (only) clue!
Exam of upper extremity
Brachial plexus
pre vs post ganglionic
- Pre-ganglionic – nerve root avulsion – dismal prognosis
- Motor Cycle
- Rough OB Doc
- Post-ganglionic – repair…
- Penetrating injuries
- KSW
- GSW
what part of lower extremity
- Crush vs. Open book: hemorrhage is the main acute issue! Open book >> lateral compression
- Need x-ray
- Close the book if hemodynamically unstable– the sheet works well in the emergent situation. Then it’s either embolization or…….ligation
Pelvis
identify nerve of lower extremity
- if you loose this nerve you will feel numb but can still walk
**2 branches
- what branch can you injure in posterior hip dislocation vs knee dislocation \
- which branch can cause foot drop
Sciatic nerve; if you loose this you will be numb but can still walk. if yo loose femoral you can’t walk
A. Peroneal branch
- More likely to be injured in posterior hip dislocations than tibial branch
- Nightstick injuries to the proximal fibula – foot drop
B. Tibial branch
- Knee dislocations
- Penetrating injuries
Identify Nerve of lower extremity
- can result in Anterior hip dislocation
- if you loose this nerve you can’t walk
**is this nerve the most lateral or most medial compared to iths artery, vein counterparts?
Femoral Nerve
- Antigravity muscles of the leg
- Damaged in penetrating trauma and iatrogenically. Remember “NAVEL” (nerve, artery, vein, lymphatics: lateral to medial)
- Anterior hip dislocation
Vasculature of lower extremity
**Hip vs knee dislocation
**If pulse is okay, does that mean you don’t have compartment syndrome ?
- Femoral; anterior hip dislocation
- Popliteal; anterior and posterior knee dislocation
- PT;
- DP
**Good pulse is not an indication that compartments are okay
Systemic approach to reading plain radiograph (5)
- Type of x-ray
- Radiographic age of patient (mature or immature)
- Views
- What is wrong…..What is right?
- A fracture requires an x-ray of one joint above and below
facts of child absue
- age
- common fractres
Child abse with fracture (multiple with different stages of healing)
A. Age; under age 3. mortality rate may be as high as 50%
B. Common patterns of abse; unwitnessed spiral fractures
C. common fractres
- rib fractures: the most commonly found fractures in child abuse (followed by humerus, femur, and tibia);
- Femur fxs: the majority of femur fxs in infants are due to abuse (non-ambulating)
differential dx of child with fracture (4)
A. Normal
B. Abuse
- Inconsistent stories
- The child’s demeanor/caretaker’s attitude toward the child and medical personnel
- Above patterns
C. Osteogenisis Imperfecta (OI)
- Family history
- Blue sclera (type one collagen, glycine substitution – bone, tendon, skin)
D. Infantile Disease Cortical Hyperostosis (Caffey’s disease)
- Jaw involvement
- Resolves by age one usually
child with a fracture
**Not usually abuse (5)
- Toddler’s Fx of the tibia; can’t bear weight
- Torus or “buckle” fracture (wrist)
- Crushed fingers
- Nurse maids elbow; pull kid’s hand up
Skull fracture in ambulatory child….
Spiral fracture – twist
- Proximally and distally
- In kids that just start walking
- Hx:
- 6 y/o female who was driving her 4 y/o sibling on an ATV, drove into the road and was struck by an auto
- PE:
- Badly swollen left thigh, leg, and foot – tight. Mild ecchymosis over thigh. Prominent bulge over left anterior inguinal canal
- excellent distal pulses.
- LLE shortened and EXTERNALLY rotated
Compartment syndrome - bad example of x-ray
New X ray of Hip - Dislocation of hip in child (looks like compartment syndrome). No acetabular fracture.
Correct presentation; •I have a 4y/o female trauma patient who was involved in an ATV vs Auto collision – she was driving the ATV and sustained an impact injury to her left lower extremity. Trauma has seen the patient and she has been cleared with an isolated anterior left hip dislocation. In addition she has a mass in the inguinal region – possibly the femoral head - and a contused/ecchymotic tightly swollen thigh with no radiographic evidence of other lower extremity fractures. She has good distal pulses, and appears sensate grossly in all dermatones distally as well. I am concerned about the hip and the thigh swelling, and trauma is thinking about emergent fasciotomies….”
Definitions
- fractured bone
- comminuted
- Non-union
- Osteomyelitis
- Neurovasclar injury
- compound fracture (old terminology)
- Fractured bone = broken bone
- Comminuted – many pieces
- Segmental – segmental (broken in many places?)
- Non-union – failure of fracture to heal
- Osteomyelitis - bone infection
- Neurovascular injury – compromise of the vascular or neurological status of the affected limb
¨Old terminology (but correctly used): Compound fracture – Open fracture
Definition
1 involves a break in the overlying skin that leads to direct communication between the fractured bone and the environment in which the injury occurred - this communication results in contamination and the potential for (bone) infection.
any fracture with overlying or adjacent skin compromise (sub-Q fat) is an open fracture until formally explored (in the OR) and shown to be otherwise.
- compromise or loss of perfusion distal to the site of injury – pulses + capillary refill vs. CR only vs. cold ecchymotic limb
- Open Fracture
- Vasclar injury
4. adolescents
5. adults
6. Sickle cell patients
7. Chronic picture
**What is most classic bug in sickle cell? most common bug in sickle cell? most common bug in adolescents of sexually active people?
–Adolescents = Gonorrheoeae
–Adults = Staph Aureus
–Sickle Cell Patients = Salmonella
–Chronic Picture = TB or Lyme
**
-In sickle cell patients, most classic bug is SALMONELLA. The most common bug is STAPH AUREUS
-In sexually active patients esp adolescents, most common bug is GONORRHEA