Conditions Of The Hand And Wrist Flashcards
Where will a patient with a scaphoid fracture experience pain?
In the anatomical snuff box, pain worsens on moving the wrist
If a scaphoid fracture is suspected clinically, why should you treat it as a fracture before confirmation?
Risk of avascular necrosis, blood supply to scaphoid mostly retrograde
What is the most common cause of a scaphoid fracture?
Fall onto an outstretched hand
If a patient falls onto an extended wrist what distal radial fracture would you suspect?
Colle’s fracture
If a patient falls onto the dorsum of a flexed wrist what distal radial fracture would you suspect?
Smith fracture
What cutlery does a patient with a colles fracture compare to?
A fork (side view)
What garden tool does a patients wrist with a smith fracture compare to?
A spade