Children’s Upper and Lower Limb Fractures

DESCRIPTION

Children’s Upper and Lower Limb Fractures has been written to give orthopaedic practitioners an easily accessible and concise description of upper and lower limb fractures encountered in the practice of pediatric orthopaedic surgery.

This book starts appropriately in considering the principles which should govern our care of the injured child and the background factors which influence fracture epidemiology. Knowing how to manage the multiply injured child and recognizing the one who has been non-accidentally injured are essential skills in our specialty. Injuries to the growth plate are not always easy to recognize and manage but, if we fail to do so, the long-term consequences may be serious. Succeeding chapters describe childhood injuries and fractures regionally. Conservative fracture management has not been forgotten amidst the plethora of newer methods of surgical fixation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Principles of Fracture Care
2. Fracture Epidemiology
3. Polytrauma in Children
4. Management of Growth Plate Injuries
5. Birth and Non-accidental Injuries
6. Birth Injuries
7. Non-Accidental Injuries
8. Fractures Around the Shoulder and the Humerus
9. Fractures of the Elbow and Forearm
10. Wrist and Hand Fractures
11. Fractures of the Pelvis
12. Femoral Neck Fractures
13. Femoral Shaft Fractures
14. Fractures of the Knee and Tibia
15. Ankle Fractures
16. Fractures and Dislocations of the Foot