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===Forearm Fracture Management Table===
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| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Fracture'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Splint'''
| align="center" style="background:#f0f0f0;"|'''Disposition'''
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|[[Radial head fracture]]
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Nondisplaced
*[[Sling and Swathe Splint]]
Displaced
*[[Long Arm Posterior Splint]] or emerg. ORIF
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|[[Monteggia fracture-dislocation]] (ulnar shaft w/prox radioulnar disloc)
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|Emergent ortho for ORIF
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|[[Galeazzi fracture]] (distal radius w/distal ulnar disloc)
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|Emerg. ortho for ORIF
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|[[Elbow dislocation]]
|[[Long arm posterior splint]] after reduction
|If associated fracture emergent ortho consult
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|[[Forearm fracture]]
|[[Sugar Tong Splint]]
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|[[Colle's fracture]] (distal radius with dist dorsal angulation)
|[[Sugar Tong Splint]]
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|[[Smith fracture]] (reverse colles with volar angulation)
|[[Sugar Tong Splint]]
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{{Forarm fracture DDX}}


==See Also==
==See Also==
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==References==
==References==
<references/>
<references/>
[[Category:Orthopedics]]

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