Clinical Manual of Emergency Orthopedics and Musculoskeletal Trauma A Practical Guide to Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Reduction, and Splinting for Fractures, Dislocations, and Limb-Threatening Emergencies
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Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
18.08.2026
Verlag
Independently PublishedSeitenzahl
168
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27,9/21,6/0,9 cm
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406 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798193462378
The patient is in the bay, the orthopedist is a phone call away at best, and the film hasn't come back yet.
Treat the obvious injury and miss what's underneath it - the knee dislocation with a normal pulse and a dying artery, the pediatric elbow fracture where "pink and pulseless" gets read as reassuring instead of urgent, the compartment syndrome dismissed as expected post-fracture pain - and a routine reduction becomes the case that follows you.
This manual rebuilds how you approach musculoskeletal emergency at the point of care, built around a single working principle: scan first, then decide. Every chapter runs on the Scan-Reduce-Stabilize Framework, so the ultrasound isn't a confirmatory afterthought, it's the first move.
- Read the joint before you touch it; confirm dislocation, guide reduction, and verify relocation in real time with the probe, not the post-reduction film twenty minutes later.
- Distrust the reassuring pulse; a normal pulse doesn't clear a knee dislocation or a compartment syndrome; pain out of proportion and pain with passive stretch tell you first, and a palpable pulse can persist well after the damage has started.
- Document the exam that protects you; neurovascular status before and after every reduction, specific enough that a chart review months later shows exactly what you knew and when.
- Catch the pattern that predicts the miss; the pink pulseless pediatric supracondylar hand, the growth plate injury a normal X-ray doesn't rule out, the fracture pattern that raises real concern for non-accidental trauma.
- Start the clock that can't wait for orthopedics; open fracture antibiotics, compartment pressure escalation, and the flexor sheath infection that isn't cellulitis, all triggered before consultation, not after.
- Know exactly who goes home; clear, repeatable criteria for discharge, urgent referral, and emergent transfer, so disposition isn't a judgment call made from instinct alone.
- Reduce with a real technique, not a guess; a 28-entry procedure atlas covers every major reduction and bedside procedure step by step, indication through pitfalls.
Built for the emergency physician, the EM or orthopedic resident, the PA or NP, and the rural, urgent-care, or sports-medicine clinician managing acute injury with no orthopedist in the building. This is the reference you reach for on the shift where the film is still twenty minutes out and the decision can't wait that long.
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