Ortho Flashcards
An adult patient will need to wait how many days before a suture can be removed from the palm of the hand.
7 -10 days
An adult will need how many days before removing a suture from the face or neck.
3 - 5 days
How many days before removing a suture from the scalp.
5 - 8 days
Adults will also need to wait how many days before removing sutures from back or joint surfaces.
10 - 12 days
When a patient’s metabolic bone activity has increased, his/her what lab might increase?
Alkaline phosphates
What thepatient should be fitted with for elbow sprains or dislocations?
Long arm posterior sling
What the patient should be fitted with for a carpal fracture or dislocation.
Radial gutter splint
What a patient should be fitted with for a scaphoid injury.
Thumb spica
What the patient should be fitted with for a severe wrist injury.
Coaptation splint
Sprain causes pain, point tenderness, swelling, and inability to use the limb for more than a brief moment.
Second degree (moderate)
Presentation of scapular fx?
Pain with shoulder movement
Presentation of shpulder dislocation?
Limited ROM, but also have deformity of the shoulder.
Presentation of humeral head fx?
Inability to move arm
Presentation of clavicular fx?
Unable to raise arm above the head
Contarindicated management for cervical spine fractures with skeletal traction?
Atlanto-occipital dislocations.
