Exam 3: Lecture 25 - Principles of Orthopedic Surgery Flashcards
What was the first case group that Orthopedics was first practiced in?
First practiced to treat childhood spinal deformities such as polio or scoliosis
What are resons to perform orthopedic surgery
- Stabilize fractures bones
- Explore, debride, and stabilize injured joints
- Replace damaged joints
- Stabilize spinal column injuries
- Decompress the spinal cord
- Resect musculoskeletal tumors
- Repair tendon and ligament injuries
As a veternarian it is important to understand your limitations and when to _________
refer complicated cases when necessary
In the clinic what is the first way to identify lameness
orthopedic exam
What challenges arise in regards to Orthpedic surgery
- Assess patient
- Classify Fracture
- Develop plans for fixation to produce predictable and consistent results
Define Allograft
Bone transplant from one animal to another of same species
Define Apophyseal Osteotomies
Procedures to enhance surgical exposure of a joint
Define Autograft
Bone transplant for one site to another in the same animal
Define Avulsion Fracture
Insertion point of a tendon or ligament is fractured and distracted frm rest of the bone
Define Bridging Plates
Span cominuted fracture
Define Cerclage Wire
Orthopedic wire placed around circumference of bone to compress an oblique fracture
Define CLosed Reduction
Fractured bone alignment performed without surgical exposures
Defire Compression Plates
Plates that act to compress the fracture
Define Corrective Osteotomies
Diaphysis or Metaphysis of a bone is cut, realigned and stabilized until union occurs
- Elective procedure
Define Cranial Drawer
Abnormal movement of stifle joint elicited during physical examination
What test can be done to test to see if there was a cranial cruciate ligament deficient stifle (Most common in dogs)
Cranial Drawer Test
What test is used to check if the tibia sliding cranially in relationship to femur
Cranial Drawer
Define Crepitation
“Grating feeling” or sound with manipulating a fractured bone or arthritic joint
Define Delayed unions
Fractures that heal more slowely than anticipated
Define Direct Bone Union
Bone formed without evidence of callus
Define Endochondral bone formation
Bone formed on cartilage precursor
Define External Coaptation
Fracture fixation with casts or splints
Define External Fixation
Fracture fixation in which pins penetrate bone and skin and connected tissue
Define Greenstick fracture
Incomplete fracture where portion of cortex is intact