Ortho/Rad Flashcards
(42 cards)
Anterior Shoulder Dislocation
Abd + Ext Rot
Axillary nerve affected
Posterior Shoulder Dislocation
Add + Int Rot
From seizure or electrical/lightning injury
Rotator Cuff Tear
Empty can test
Mid-Shaft Humerus Fx
Wrist drop d/t radial nerve
Clavicle Fx
Middle third most commonly affected
Tx - sling
Supracondylar Fx
PEDS Median nerve + brachial artery affected Ant sail and post fat-pad sign Gun-stock deformity Volkmann's contracture
Elbow Dislocation
Usually post
Scaphoid Fx
d/t FOOSH
Snuffbox tenderness
Tx - thumb spica splint
Carpal Tunnel
Median nerve affected
Phalen & Tinel signs
Compression test
Thenar eminence atrophy
Boxer Fx
5th metacarpal Fx
Tx - ulnar gutter splint
Dequervain Tenosynovitis
Preg!
Finklestein test
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Young male, HLA B27
Bamboo sign
Cauda Equina Injury
Bowel/bladder incontinence
Saddle paresthesia
Spinal Stenosis
Shopping cart sign (pain relieved c forward bend)
Avascular Necrosis
Femoral neck Fx - get frog/lat XR
Limp
Legg-Calve-Perthes
Avascular necrosis of HIP.
Sx of knee pain though
SCFE
Often in obese peds
XR - Post displacement of femoral epiphysis “Ice cream off cone”
Developmental Hip Dysplasia
Palpable ‘clunk’
+ Ortalani and Barlow test
Tx: Pavlick harness
Hip Fx
Ext Rot + Shortening
ACL Tear
Deceleration, hyperext injury
Pop/swelling
+ Lachman or Ant Drawer test
Meniscus Tear
Mechanical Sx
Baker cyst
+ McMurry & Apley test
Osgood-Schaltter Disease
PEDS
Knee pain that worsens c exercise
Tenderness over tibial tuberosity
Achilles Tear
+ Thompson test
Osteomyelitis
S. aureus