ORTHOPAEDICS - ADULT
PARONYCHIA
Prompt
ResponseSwelling and redness over cuticle with destruction of proximal nailbed
Paronychia
Paronychia
PromptTricks for ultrasounding a finger
Response
US - Disruption of dorsal distal phalanx with loss of normally smooth echogenic cortical surface
Can use water bath ultrasound imaging - finger and ultrasound probe are submerged and probe does not touch finger - can use water as window to image finger without touching it
US - Disruption of dorsal distal phalanx with loss of normally smooth echogenic cortical surface
Can use water bath ultrasound imaging - finger and ultrasound probe are submerged and probe does not touch finger - can use water as window to image finger without touching it
PromptFRACTURES
Response
PromptAnalgesia in fracture
ResponsePharmacologic
- Inhaled - nitrous, methoxyflurane
- Parenteral - opioids, NSAIDS, ketamine
- ENteral - Paracetamol, NSAIDS, opiates
- Reduction and splinting