Your child's skin over the fracture is swollen, cold, or pale. Your child cannot move his or her hand or fingers.Call your child's doctor if:Your child's brace or splint becomes wet, damaged, or comes off. You have questions or concerns about your child's condition or care.Medicines...
A buckle fracture is a minor fracture but should still be treated as if the injured limb is in plaster. The splint should be worn for four weeks. During this time and for four weeks after the splint is removed,your child should avoid all sporting activities (including swimming)and rough pl...
Of these, 153 (71%) were splinted and 63 (29%) were casted. No patients or carers expressed concern about deformities. 108 patients were directly discharged from the emergency department with 33 patients discharged from the Virtual fracture clinic and other 75 patients generating 124 clinic ...
Results exhibited that satisfaction, convenience, and preference scores were significantly higher for patients who received a splint to treat their distal radial buckle fracture. Although post immobilization pain scores were also high...
The clinical bottom line is that a child diagnosed with a buckle fracture of the wrist can be safely discharged from the emergency department (ED) in a removable splint with no follow-up from the orthopaedic department. View this table: In this window In a new windowGabby...
A Cochrane review and 8 systematic reviews were also identified and manually searched for missed articles and this yielded a further 3 articles.#Current research indicates that torus fractures should be managed with a removable splint supplied in A&E and worn for 3weeks. There is no need for ...
Eligible children were aged 2 to 17 years with a distal radius buckle fracture treated with a removable splint and referred to the PCP for reassessment. We telephoned families 28 days after their ED visit. The primary outcome was the proportion who received PCP follow-up exclusively. We also ...
Study objective: In patients with a distal radius buckle fracture, we determine whether home removal of a splint and physician follow-up as needed (home management) is noninferior to primary care physician follow-up in 1 to 2 weeks with respect to functional recovery. We also compare groups ...
Hospital ED seeing approximately 30000 children aged under 16 years of age per year in the ED, began managing children diagnosed with a torus fracture of the distal radius with a wrist splint and written self-care information, rather than a wrist splint and hospital-based fracture clinic follow...