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Filter by:The purpose of the study is to examine the efficacy and accuracy of Ultrasound in evaluating occult fractures. We want to examine it on children that suffer from suspected fractures of the foot and ankle and the results of the x-ray are either negative or inconclusive.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the blood supply to patients that are suffering from fracture in the tibia by UltraSound Doppler.
Completely displaced (Type III) supracondylar fractures of the humerus are treated in the operating room and are held together with pins stuck into the bone. There are two ways of inserting the pins: crossed and laterally. The crossed method is often used because it is thought to be more stable, but this method also carries a risk of hitting the ulnar nerve. It is not known which method is more stable. Our hypothesis is that loss of reduction will be equivalent between the two pinning methods.
The purpose of this study is to determine the efficacy of ultrasound in diagnosing the presence or absence of extremity fractures or dislocations. Hypothesis: Can ultrasound be used as an accurate and effective method for determining the presence or absence of extremity fractures or dislocations? Is there a difference in amount of pain experienced prior to and after the ultrasound?
Femur fractures are a common injury in the Pediatric population. Despite their high incidence little do we know about the long term implications on the bones' length. Our main goal is to clarify this obscure issue by assessing the femoral and tibial length as determined by the fractures, measuring techniques and treatment modalities
The study examines time spent in the emergency room on admission of patients with hip fracture in a cohort with a traditional setup compared with a prospective cohort with a fast track admission schedule including nurse initiation of treatmnet, standardized analgesia, fluid and oxygen therapy and standardized logistics for x-ray and admission procedures.
The purpose of the study is to determine if daily teriparatide reduces back pain more effectively than weekly risedronate in women with osteoporosis who have chronic back pain due to a spinal bone fracture.
The fractures of the wrist, affecting the distal end of the radius are frequent, in particular in the old subject and/or osteoporotic. Beside the simple fractures treated by mini-invasive surgical methods, there is a considerable number of strong comminuted fractures for which no method of osteosynthesis proves completely satisfactory, especially on osteoporotic bone. However, the restitution of the anatomy remains the principal concern of the surgeon eager to ensure a good functional result to its patient, with the proviso that the least aggressive possible method is used. Until now, it is of use to rather largely use the external fixer bridging the radiocarpal articulation to maintain the length of the radius, more or less associated with an another method of internal osteosynthesis with minima. The major disadvantage of this kind of assembly is the high rate of neuroalgodystrophic syndromes of the wrist and losses of reduction, sometimes generators of painful after-effects and serious stiffening. These after-effects which are sometimes definitive can be very disabling when they occur among active people, a fortiori when they touch the dominant side. The recent alternative to the use of the external fixer is the use of the plates with locking screws, affixed on the foreface of the radius, maintaining the length of the radius but not bridging the articulation. Thus, this kind of osteosynthesis does not generate ligamentary distraction nor of the radiocarpal capsule, factors which would be prevalent in the release of the algodystrophy and of the stiffening. On the other hand, this method of osteosynthesis is more invasive than the installation of an external fixer, because it requires the access of the foreface of the radius and cannot be practised in a percutaneous way. At present, there is any randomized comparative study, the published studies being only comparative retrospective and not controlled, carried out on nonhomogeneous series of fractures. The principal objective of our study is to evaluate the interest of the locking plates in the maintenance of the radial length in the comminuted fractures of the distal end of the radius. It is about a prospective, multicentric, randomized study in 2 parallel groups carried out patients from 40 to 80 years hospitalized in a service of Osseous Surgery. Patients: articular displaced fractures of the lower end of the radius with strong metaphysar comminution (groups M3 and M4 of the classification MEC) with an important shortening of the radius, measured by a radio-ulnar index higher than 4 mm compared to the opposite side. Are excluded the articular explosions type E4. The patients of more than 40 years, autonomous and active, able to give an assent for the participation in a clinical study are included. Treatment. The first group of patients would be treated by fore locked plate possibly associated with pins. The immobilization would be limited to a antibrachiopalmar splint for 45 days. If, peroperatively, a sufficient stability of the fracture cannot be obtained by the plate alone, and that a complementary stabilization by fixer proves to be necessary, then the case will be entered like a failure of stabilization by locked plate. The second group of patients would be treated by external radiocarpal fixer in neutralization possibly associated with an internal osteosynthesis with minima (percutaneous pins). The fixer would be left in place during 45 days. The reeducation would consist in the 2 groups of an active mobilization of the fingers at the beginning, then of an active reeducation of the wrist in flexion/extension and pronosupination starting from the 45th day. About fifty patients should be included in each group, with a collection of the clinical and radiographic results at 21 days, 45 days, 3 months and 6 months.
The purpose of this study is to assess the efficacy of tranexamic acid in hip fracture surgery on the reduction of allogeneic red blood cell transfusion.
Background: Nonsurgical proximal humerus fracture is common, causing prolonged disability, for which the time to begin rehabilitation is not well determined. We assessed the feasibility and efficacy of early (within 3 days’after fracture) mobilisation of the shoulder compared with conventional 3-week immobilization followed by physiotherapy.