Femoral Shaft Fracture Menu

(see: Synthes Femoral Products)

• Workup for Femoral Shaft Frx (trauma workup)
  • assessment of perfusion: damage control orthopaedics
  • timing of surgery in orthopaedic patients with brain injury
  • surgical timing and prevention of ARDS in patients with femur frx
• IM Nailing Technique

• Anatomy of Femur
• Arterial supply
• Canal Entry Point
• Comminuted Femoral Shaft Fractures
• Distal Femoral Physeal Fractures
• Distal Femoral Shaft Fractures
• Discussion of Femur
• DVT and PE arising from Trauma and L.E. Fractures
• External Fixation for Femoral Shaft Fractures
• Femoral Neck Frx associated w/ Femoral Shaft Frx
• Femoral and Tibial Traction Pins
• Floating Knee Injuries
• Infected IM nails
• Intramedullary Nailing
• Open Fractures
• Nonunion

Pediatric Femoral Fractures »

• Plating of Femoral Shaft Frx
• Periprosthetic Fracture
• Prophylactic IM Nailing (metastatic disease)
  Proximal Femoral Shaft Fractures
• Reaming and Nailing Maneuver
• Reduction of Femoral Shaft Frx
• Retrograde Nailing of Femoral Shaft Fractures
• Subtrochanteric Fractures
• Supracondylar Fractures
• Synthes IM Femoral Nail
• Timing of Surgery in Orthopaedic Patients with Brain Injury
• Winquist Class
• Universal Femoral Distractor