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Triquetral Fracture
The triquetrum is the second most commonly fractured carpal bone. Look for the "pooping duck
Complications ... dorsum of the hand ... to distal ulna, pain ... ED Management: Pain ... #Sports #MSK
Scaphoid Fractures
The scaphoid is the most commonly fractured carpal bone. Remember, if a fracture is suspected
Complications ... onto outstretched hand ... anatomic snuffbox, pain ... ED Management: Pain ... #Sports #MSK
Orthopedic Essentials - Spinal Trauma and Spine Classification 
DENIS THREE COLUMN CONCEPT
Anterior column:
Orthopedic Essentials ... Spine Classification ... capsule DENIS CLASSIFICATION ... Classification ... #Orthopedics #diagnosis
Orthopedic Fracture Classification - Pelvic and Lower Limbs
Letournel Classification Acetabular Fractures:
 • Simple Types: Anterior column,
Orthopedic Fracture ... Undisplaced 2 parts ... intact between the main ... Tarsometatarsal Injury ... #Lower #Limbs #Orthopedics
Classification of Pelvic Ring Fractures: Mechanisms, Clinical Features and Complications
 • Anterior Posterior Compression (APC) -
Classification of ... Complications ... - Type 1 or 2 injury ... #Classification ... Grades #Grading #Orthopedics
Open Fractures: Mechanisms, Clinical Features and Complications
Gustilo-Anderson Classification:
 • Type I
   - Wound <
Open Fractures: ... Clinical Features and ... Complications ... Typically "inside out" injury ... #MSK #Orthopedics
Hamate Fracture on Wrist X-Ray

- point tenderness over the hamate should raise suspicion for a fracture,
, and if plain films ... prompt outpatient orthopedics ... and fractures with ... neurovascular injury ... Radiology #MSK #Orthopedics
Posterior Elbow Dislocation
The elbow is the second most commonly dislocated major joint in adults and the
onto outstretched hand ... ), ligamentous injury ... brachial artery injury ... Management: Simple, pain ... #Sports #MSK
Acute Joint Pain - Vitamin CD Mnemonic
Vascular
Infectious
Trauma - Multiple injury sites, Open Fracture, Infectious joint pain
Autoimmune
Trauma - Multiple injury ... sites, Open Fracture ... See pathologic fractures ... Mnemonic #MSK #Orthopedics ... #differential #
What is a Boxer’s fracture?? Fracture of the 4th or 5th metacarpal neck
 - Common in
falls onto the hand ... - Pain along ulnar ... weeks Urgent orthopedics ... if injury of dominant ... Management #Referral #Orthopedics