Orthopedic Hardware

Question 1

Principles in Management of Fracture

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Recognition
Reduction/Retention
Retention/Immobilization
Rehabilitation

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Involves history taking skills of nurses to assess the type of fracture and its manifestations specifically the signs and symptoms

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Recognition

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Putting back the bone to its proper alignment

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Reduction/Retention

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2 Categories of Reduction/Retention

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Close Reduction
Open Reduction

Question 3

Manual manipulation of the bone back to its proper alignment

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Close Reduction

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Surgical intervention in aligning the bone back to its normal form

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Open Reduction

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Maintaining alignment of the fractured bone using immobilization gadgets such as Cast, Traction, External Fixators and Orthopedic Braces

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Retention/Immobilization

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Putting and helping the patient achieve the optimum level of functioning after having the retention phase

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Rehabiliation

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Self retaining retractors commonly used for spinal surgery

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Beckman

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Retractor used to minimally invasive hip knee surgery

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Hohmann

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Self retaining retractors used for shallow incisions such as radius ulna

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Weitlaner

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For lifting and dissecting periosteum and other bone lining

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Cobb’s Elevator

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For holding bone fragments and plates during manipulation and fixation

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Lowman

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For holding bone during open reduction

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Reduction clamp

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For holding complicated bone fragments such as patella in tension bond wiring

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Tenaculum

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For holding bone and manipulation during multiple orthopedic surgeries

With longer and shorter rachet

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Verbrugge

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For gouging, cutting, and harvesting bone chips

With different tips such as gooseneck, double action, and fine tip

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Rongeur

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For cutting and removing vertebral body and discs in minimally invasive spine surgery

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Pituitary

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For removal of ligaments and bone tissues adjacent to nerves in spinal surgery

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Kerrison

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Used in harvesting skin grafts

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Blair Knife

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For boring hole through the bone using drill bits, screws, and pins

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bone drill

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Battery operated for cutting small and large bones during amputation

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Oscillating Bone Saw

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For cutting bones during amputation

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Gigli saw

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For cutting pins and wires in surgical procedures

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Pin Cutter

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For cleaning and scraping bones, intramedullary cavity and soft tissues in debridement

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Curette

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Used for obtaining bone chips, for scraping dead or necrotic bones

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Osteotome

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Used for beating or giving pressure on an osteotome

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Mallet

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Enlarges an existing hole in the bone to a desired size for the implant to fit its desired location

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Reamer

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Used to grip, pull, twist, cut, and tighten wires, pins, and rods

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Pliers

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To hold the skin together post-operatively

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Skin Stapler

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Used to remove skin stapler after 2-3 weeks

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Skin Wire Remover

Question 29

For removal of intramedullary nail

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Intramedullary Nail Extractor

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For fracture of the middle 3rd or distal 3rd femur. It may be inserted on the trochanter or retrograde approach

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Intramedullary Nail

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used for multiple fracture patterns that allow placement of guidewire for better alignment

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Cannulated screw

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Used to affix bone plates and implants to the cortical bone

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Cortical Screw

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For unstable pertrochanteric, intertrochanteric, or subtrochanteric fracture of femur

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Proximal Femoral Nail

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Used for screw fixation to large bone fragments with spongy bones. It can be full threaded, half threaded, and tip threaded

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Cancellous screw

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Instrumentation for spinal surgery such as scoliosis and spinal fusion

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Pedicular Screws and Rods

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For long bone uncomplicated fracture lines such as transverse and oblique fracture. It can be mini, narrow, or broad

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Dynamic Compression Plate (DCP)

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For fracture of flat bones usually used in facial, clavicular, or iliac crest fracture

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Recon plate

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For fracture of tibia, distal 3rd and supraacondylar fracture of femur. It can be T-plate, Y-plate, or hockey plate

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Buttress Plate

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For pediatric patients long bone fracture, also for fracture of the fibula

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Semi-tubular Plate

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For tension band wiring usually used in patellar fracture

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Cerclage wire

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For partial hip replacement arthroplasty (PHRA) with head of the femur and stem components

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Bipolar Hip Prosthesis

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For total hip replacement arthroplasty (THRA) with head stem, acetabular cap and linear components

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Bipolar Hip Prosthesis with Acetabular Cap

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For total knee replacement arthroplasty, for degenerative joint disease. With femoral and tibial component

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Total Knee Prosthesis

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Replacement of infected hip prosthesis

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Antibiotic spacer

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Provides therapeutic effect for osteomyelitis

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Antibiotic Beads