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Visual Guide to Splinting by Location

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#Splinting #Locations #Management #Orthopedics #Emergency #Fractures #splints
Splinting #Locations #Management ... Emergency #Fractures #splints
Orthopedic Splints, Casts, Plasters, Traction and Frames
Upper Limb and Spine 
 • DUNLOP TRACTION: Used in
Orthopedic Splints ... stabilized by splint ... Used acutely in management ... scoliosis #Splints ... #Orthopedics #management
Cryofibrinogenemia Summary

Cryofibrinogenemia Epidemiology:
 • 40-70 years with a modest female predominance

Cryofibrinogenemia:
 • The precipitation of a
amounts of fibrin split ... Fibrinogen • Fibrin split ... pulmonary emboli, and ocular
CA-Bridge Buprenorphine Hospital Quick Start Algorithm - Management of acute opiate withdrawal 
 - Any prescriber
Start Algorithm - Management ... co-exisiting chronic pain split ... dosing TID/QID #Management
Checklist Approach to Hypokalemia

Consider risk factors for arrhythmia:
 - EKG changes (especially QT prolongation)
 - Digoxin
central line or split ... #Hypokalemia #Management
Orthopedic Platings, Nails and Screws
Bohler’s Stirrup: U shaped device to hold a Steinmann pin and applying
or buttress the split ... prosthesis has neck, collar ... prosthesis has NO neck, collar ... #Orthopedics #management
IGG-4 RELATED DISEASE

WHAT?
 • A chronic, immune-mediated fibroinflammatory disease with tumefactive infiltration of IgG4+ plasma cells
Classification: 2019 ACR/EULAR ... Criteria (>= 20 points ... mimics excluded MANAGEMENT ... IGG4 #Diagnosis #Management
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
often in soil, plants ... osteoarticular, pulmonary, ocular ... Fungal #Diagnosis #Management
Astigmatism: Pathogenesis and clinical findings
Astigmatism - deviation from spherical curvature of the lens or eye

Refracting power
brought to different points ... of focus on the ... • Headache • Ocular
Quick Guide: Buprenorphine Initiation Algorithm
Adjunctive meds: 
The following can be prescribed PRN for symptoms of withdrawal
experiencing pain may split ... single dose in am – split ... Algorithm #Treatment #Management