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Talus Fractures
Keith Mayo
OTA Basic Fracture Course

Fracture types, treatment and complications

Antibiotics for fracture care.

External Fixation for Open Type IIIB Tibial Fratures

Femoral neck fractures in the young adult are a different type of fracture than those seen in the elderly. These younger patients have normal bone density. A simple fall is not going to break the femoral neck. These fractures require high energy type injury mechanisms, and greater than 50% of the patients will have associated injuries as a reflection of the severity of their injury. The mechanisms is usually an axial load to the lower extremity with an abducted hip. The fracture pattern in these patients tends to be more vertical than in the elderly patient.
OTA Basic Fracture Course

Femoral Shaft Fractures Classification: Winquist: OTA Basic Fracture Course

Chip Rout: OTA Basic Fracture Course Femoral shaft fractures in children are a little difficult to deal with, especially if you are taking care of them sporadically and especially when they are associated with polytrauma.

Lecture/presentation in the Basic Fracture Course of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association

OTA Basic Fracture Course
Preface
Misconceptions
Fracture Healing Stages
Fracture Healing Determinants
Direct Bone Healing
* gap healing
* contact healing
* implications for plates
Indirect Bone Healing
Summary

Medical Student teaching powerpoint presentation

OTA Core Curriculum Lectures Prolonged download time

After 10 million years of experience we were brainwashed into believing that rigid immobilization of fractures was a prerequisite for fracture healing. Ten million years was not enough. Presentation by Sarmiento

Humeral shaft fractures can be managed non-operatively with 90-100% union rates in almost all cases.

Humeral Shaft fractures - plates versus nailing

Timing and indcations for trauma surgery: from the OTA Basic Fracture Course