Procedure: Haematoma Block
Emergency Procedure, instruction and discussion: Haematoma block; used in forearm or distal radius fracture requiring reduction
Category Orthopaedics
Adult Ortho Cases 005
Xray and ultrasound (POCUS) evaluation of integrity of quadriceps tendon, patella tendon, and patella evaluating for tendon rupture and patella fracture.
William Macewen
Scottish surgeon Sir William Macewen (1848–1924) pioneered neurosurgery, bone grafting, and antiseptic technique, transforming modern surgical practice
Melvin S. Henderson
Melvin Starkey Henderson (1883–1954), founding Mayo orthopaedist and ABOS president, co-described Reichel–Jones–Henderson syndrome (synovial chondromatosis).
Alfred Stieda
Eugen Julius Karl Paul Alfred Stieda (1869 – 1945) was a German Surgeon. Eponym: The Stieda fracture, Stieda tubercle and Pellegrini-Stieda disease (1908)
George Chance
George Quentin Chance was an British radiologist. Eponymously associated with the Chance fracture (1948) transverse fracture through a vertebral body
Mary Walker
Mary Broadfoot Walker (1888 - 1974) was a Scottish physician. Mary Walker effect (1934); neostigmine and myasthenia gravis
Karel Maydl
Karel Maydl (1853–1903), Czech surgeon, pioneer of colostomy, bladder exstrophy surgery, and Maydl’s hernia; early describer of Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease (LCPD)
Frederic Cotton
Frederic Jay Cotton (1869–1939) was an American Orthopedic Surgeon. Eponymously affiliated with the Cotton fracture (trimalleolar fracture) and Cotton-Loader position (hyper-flexed wrist with ulna deviation in closed reduction of distal radius fractures)
Arthur Legg
Arthur Thornton Legg (1874–1939), American orthopaedic surgeon, described Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease, clarifying its non-tuberculous origin
Jacques Calvé
Jacques Calvé (1875–1954), French orthopaedist. Defined vertebra plana, advanced spinal TB care, and described Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease
Georg Perthes
Georg Perthes (1869–1927), German surgeon. Described Perthes’ test for varicose veins (1895) and arthritis deformans juvenilis, later known as Perthes disease (1910)