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With improving rates of survival following road traffic injuries in many countries, healthy years of life lost due to crashes increasingly reflect the prevalence of disabling sequelae. This review examines the epidemiological evidence regarding the risk of disability due to car crashes, published between 1980 and 2002. Studies of sequelae limited to specific domains (e.g. head injury, whiplash, psychiatric...
This paper describes a unique fracture pattern of the proximal phalanx in children that has not been specifically studied in the literature. Volarly, the fracture line passes through the phalangeal neck and then the fracture line passes dorsally to include a dorsal flange of the metaphysis. Fractures were classified into three types: type I fractures were undisplaced with no finger deformity; type...
In a retrospective, non-randomized study, we reviewed our experience with the operative treatment of olecranon fractures to find out which factors correlate with subjective complaints and functional outcome. A total of 95 consecutive olecranon fractures were operatively treated in our level I trauma institution between 1 March 1992 and 1 March 2000. Medical records and X-rays of all patients were...
Comprehensive documentation of surgical procedures is an essential component of good medical practice, but the standard of operation notes in orthopaedic and trauma surgery has been notoriously poor. The value of proformas in the production of high standard operation notes has been demonstrated in various surgical specialities. We have compared the standard of documentation of operation notes before...
Irreducible dislocations of the second metacarpophalangeal joints can be surgically reduced using the Kaplan's volar approach or the dorsal approach. We report on our experience of reducing these dislocations by the Kaplans volar approach in nine patients. This approach was preferred since the visualisation of the offending volar fibrocartilagenous plate is best with the use of this approach. In majority...
We evaluated the results of the use of AO reconstruction plates in the open reduction and internal fixation of acute displaced fractures of the adult distal humerus. This was a retrospective study of such patients where the main surgical strategy was open reduction and internal fixation with AO reconstruction plates. From 1992 to 1998, 40 patients were included. Average follow-up was 98 (60-127) months...
In 1995, we audited the outcome following Gartland's type III supracondylar fractures of the humerus in children. Closed reduction under anaesthesia (MUA) and cast immobilisation was the treatment of choice, with the treatment changed whenever displacement occurred. The result of the audit showed that 86% of cases were treated with this method. The rate of re-operation was 45.6%. Cubitus varus deformity...
An atypical presentation of compartment syndrome is reported in a chronic schizophrenic patient with a closed upper tibial fracture. The features of this case and a review of the literature pertaining to pain perception in this group of patients are presented to raise clinical awareness of this combination of disorders, which may lead to delayed treatment of a surgical emergency, consequent on lack...
We audited the delays in the management of 29 patients presenting to our department with 30 open fractures over a 1-year-period to ascertain where the most lengthy delays were occurring. Gold standard treatment is the surgical debridement and stabilisation of the fracture within 6h of injury. In our series only 14 patients achieved this standard. The lengthiest delays were in getting a patient to...
Humeral fractures in the setting of multi-trauma are usually managed with internal fixation. We prospectively followed nine patients treated with an expandable nail (Fixion(TM), DiscoTech, Medical Technologies, Herzliya, Israel), until union. Internal fixation rapidly stabilises the injured limb, and the lack of distal cross-bolting in this device markedly reduced our operative time. There were no...
Injury to the axillary artery following anterior shoulder dislocation is a very rare occurrence. This review serves to illustrate the now classical case of an elderly gentleman with a recurrent dislocation, transection of the axillary artery and its invariable association with a severe brachial plexus lesion, which is the most important determinant of long-term disability. It also highlights the pathognomic...
The standard technique in the management of chronic low ulnar nerve injuries includes excision of the neuroma and reconstruction using sural nerve grafts in the fully anaesthetised patient. It has been shown that using this standard technique, disappointing results may be observed and that significant improvement in results could be obtained if intra-operative matching of sensory and motor fascicles...
Purpose: To investigate the hypothesis that percutaneous wire fixation of proximal humeral fractures is prone to regional neurovascular injury. Materials and Methods: 40 cadaveric shoulders had percutaneous wires inserted from anterior and lateral humeral shaft entry points into the humeral head. The shoulders were then dissected to identify the neurovascular structures in this area. Results: The...
The management of dorsal digital and hand injuries can pose a difficult problem to the trainee surgeon. Often repair involves using tissue from neighbouring digits. Our experience using local perforator flaps based on the direct cutaneous branch of the dorsal metacarpal arteries shows that these can be dissected and used successfully in the management of complex injuries of the dorsum of the hand...
In an attempt to determine whether alpha adrenergic agonists sprayed directly over the wound are able to reduce a superficial bleeding, phenylephrine (0.25%), oxymetazoline (0.05 and 0.25%) and saline (0.9%) were tested in a rat model. The study was randomized, controlled and quantitative. A total of four incisions were made in each rat, and each solution was sprayed directly on the incision according...
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