Book contents
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Interactive website
- Section 1 The FRCS (Tr & Orth) Oral Examination
- Section 2 Adult Elective Orthopaedics and Spine
- Section 3 Trauma
- Chapter 9 General principles and fracture biomechanics
- Chapter 10 Lower limb trauma I
- Chapter 11 Lower limb trauma II
- Chapter 12 Upper limb trauma I
- Chapter 13 Upper limb trauma II
- Chapter 14 Pelvic trauma
- Chapter 15 Spinal trauma
- Chapter 16 Paediatric trauma
- Section 4 Children’s Orthopaedics/Hand and Upper Limb
- Section 5 Applied Basic Sciences
- Section 6 Drawings for the FRCS (Tr & Orth)
- Index
- References
Chapter 16 - Paediatric trauma
from Section 3 - Trauma
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 November 2019
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Postgraduate Orthopaedics
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Interactive website
- Section 1 The FRCS (Tr & Orth) Oral Examination
- Section 2 Adult Elective Orthopaedics and Spine
- Section 3 Trauma
- Chapter 9 General principles and fracture biomechanics
- Chapter 10 Lower limb trauma I
- Chapter 11 Lower limb trauma II
- Chapter 12 Upper limb trauma I
- Chapter 13 Upper limb trauma II
- Chapter 14 Pelvic trauma
- Chapter 15 Spinal trauma
- Chapter 16 Paediatric trauma
- Section 4 Children’s Orthopaedics/Hand and Upper Limb
- Section 5 Applied Basic Sciences
- Section 6 Drawings for the FRCS (Tr & Orth)
- Index
- References
Summary
This 10-year-old boy was hit by a car while crossing the road and sustained a closed head injury with GCS 8/15. He has been intubated because he is combative. A secondary survey has revealed this associated limb injury (Figure 16.1).
I can see a shoulder trauma series with an AP and an attempted shoot-through or trans-scapular view. It’s not quite a lateral Y-view I’m suspecting as the radiographer couldn’t get the correct projection. There’s a transverse fracture of the metaphysis, which is angulated medially due to the pull of the pectoralis major. If he was conscious I would specifically look at the axillary nerve function.
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- Postgraduate OrthopaedicsViva Guide for the FRCS (Tr & Orth) Examination, pp. 332 - 350Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019