Ortho Flashcards
Bone pain, tenderness, proximal myopathy, waddling gait?
Osteomalacia
Initial treatment for visual loss due to temporal arteritis?
IV Methylprednisolone
Old man, back pain, raised ALP?
Paget’s disease
Complications of Paget’s?
Deafness, bone sarcoma, fractures, skull thickening, cardiac failure
What commonly presents with pain on external rotation, on both active and passive movement?
Adhesive capsulitis
How does an infraspinatus tear usually present?
Painless
Weakness on active movement
Rare
How does shoulder impingement present?
Painful abduction
Positive Hawkins sign
How does supraspinatus tear present?
Defect in abduction
What antibiotic is not appropriate to prescribe with methotrexate due to risk of bone marrow suppression?
Trimethoprim
What antibody is most sensitive for SLE?
ANA
Triad of symptoms of fat embolism?
Respiratory
Neurological
Petechial rash
Treatment for undisplaced intracapsular hip fracture?
Internal fixation
Hemiarthroplasty if unfit
Treatment for displaced intracapsular hip fracture?
THR
Hemiarthroplasty if unfit
Treatment for extracapsular hip fracture?
DHS
Intramedullary device is subtrochanteric
Colles’ Fracture
Dinner fork deformity FOOSH 1. Transverse fracture of radius 2. 1 inch proximal to radio-carpal joint 3. Dorsal displacement and angulation