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Principles of Fractures & Fracture Management

Principles of Fractures & Fracture Management. Prof. Mamoun Kremli AlMaarefa College. Trauma History. Mechanism of injury Date, time, type, method of impact, … Consciousness Function of injured part Open wound / bleeding Other injuries Anti-Tetanus status (if skin breached).

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Principles of Fractures & Fracture Management

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  1. Principles of Fractures& Fracture Management Prof. Mamoun Kremli AlMaarefa College

  2. Trauma History • Mechanism of injury • Date, time, type, method of impact, … • Consciousness • Function of injured part • Open wound / bleeding • Other injuries • Anti-Tetanus status (if skin breached)

  3. Type of injury • Mechanism of injury helps expect the • Extent and type of bone injury • Extent of soft tissue injury • Suggests treatment and reduction technique • Expected prognosis

  4. Type of injury • Fall: height, point of impact, twist

  5. Type of injury • Fall: height, point of impact, twist • Sport: type, direction of force

  6. Type of injury • Fall: height, point of impact, twist • Sport: type, direction of force • Road traffic accident (RTA)): • Car (MVA) , motorcycle, pedestrian

  7. Type of injury • Fall: height, point of impact, twist • Sport: type, direction of force • Road traffic accident (RTA)): • Car (MVA) , motorcycle, pedestrian • Heavy object fall: TV, wall, metal, earthquake

  8. Type of injury • Fall: height, point of impact, twist • Sport: type, direction of force • Road traffic accident (RTA)): • Car (MVA) , motorcycle, pedestrian • Heavy object fall: TV, wall, metal, earthquake • Assault & firearms / blast http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_injury

  9. Mechanism of Injury • Low velocity • High velocity • Direction of force • Blunt / Sharp • Open / Closed

  10. Mechanism of Injury • Low velocity • High velocity • Direction of force • Blunt / Sharp • Open / Closed http://eorif.com/

  11. Energy dissipated during injury Kinetic Energy = ½ MV2 • If a Simple fall = 1 • Skiinginjury = 3-5 • High-velocitygunshot = 20 • Car bumper (25 km/hr) = 100

  12. What is a fracture? • A fracture is a break in the structural continuity ofbone • Always associated with some soft tissue injury • A fracture is a soft tissue injury in which bone is broken!

  13. Fracture Classification Epiphysis • According to site of Fracture: • Diapyhseal • Metaphyseal • Articular • Epiphyseal (in children) Physis Metaphysis Diaphysis (Shaft) Articular Surface

  14. Fracture Classification • According to fracture line: • Complete (usual) • Cortex fractured on both sides

  15. Fracture Classification • According to fracture line: • Complete (usual) • Cortex fractured on both sides • Incomplete (green stick) (Torus) • One cortex fractured, the other intact • In children

  16. C Complex A Simple B Wedge Fracture Classification • According to fracture pattern: • Simple • Wedge comminuted • Complex comminuted • multifragmented

  17. Fracture Classification • According to type of injury (force): • Ordinary fracture • Expected from force of injury • Stress fracture • Repetitive stress • Pathological fracture • Force too weak to cause fracture • Bone is pathologically weak • Avulsion fracture • Resisted muscle action, where ligaments and tendons pull a bone fragment off

  18. Stress Fractures • Bone reacts to repeated loading, may become fatigued & a crack develops • Fatigue fractures • Abnormal stress or torque on a bone that has normal elastic resistance • Examples: • military recruits, athletes, ballet dancers • Insufficiency fractures • Normal muscular activity stresses a bone that is deficient in mineral or elastic resistance

  19. Stress Fractures • Fatigue fractures • 2nd metatarsal • Tibia • Fibula • Insufficiency fractures • In osteopenia, osteomalacia • Neck of femur • Ribs • Neck of humerus • Scapula www.imaging.birjournals.org www.sanluispodiatrygroup.com www.studyblue.com

  20. Pathological fractures • Fractures may occur even with normal stresses if thebone has been weakened by a change in its structure. Seen in: • Local bone disease • Osteomyelitis • Benign tumors and Bone cysts • Malignant tumors and matastasis • Generalized disease • Metabolic: osteoporosis, rikets • Congenital: osteogenesis imperfecta • Others: Paget’s disease

  21. Avulsion fractures • Part of bone separated by forceful sudden resisted muscle action • Caused by ligament or tendon pull on bone • Part of bone avulsed – bone weaker than tendon/ligament

  22. Type of injury • Direct • Simple contusion or severe comminution • Soft tissue more injured • Indirect • Pattern of fracture depends on force direction • Less soft tissue injury • Penetrating • Missiles • Low velocity < 300 m/s - damage along the tract • Comminution • High velocity: >300m/s - sever comminution • Comminution with wide soft tissue damage

  23. Force & fracture pattern • Fracture pattern suggests mechanism of force • Spiral: (twisting) • Short oblique: (compression) • Wedge: (compression + bending) • Transverse: (angulation) (avulsion)

  24. Force & fracture pattern

  25. . Bone Segment Type Group Subgroup AO/OTA fracture classification • A comprehensive universal classification system that describes the injury, guides treatment, and suggests prognosis • Based on a five-part code:

  26. . Bone Segment Type Group Subgroup AO/OTA fracture classification • Bone: 1 2 3 4

  27. 1 2 3 1 2 3 — . Bone Segment Type Group Subgroup AO/OTA fracture classification • Location:

  28. . Bone Segment Type Group Subgroup AO/OTA fracture classification • Type: C Complex A Simple B Wedge

  29. AO/OTA fracture classification • Group:

  30. . Bone Segment Type Group Subgroup AO/OTA fracture classification Bone Humerus 1 Diaphysis 2 Segment A Simple Type 2 Oblique Group 2 Subgroup Middle 1 2 A 2 2

  31. Displacement • Described as: Distal in relation to proximal • Un-displaced • Shift • Sideways • Shortening • Distraction • Angulation • In all planes • Rotation

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