What percentage of childhood fractures are due to falls?
Which is located at the end of a long bone; epiphysis or the metaphysis?
The epiphysis has how many layers of cartilage?
The physis, or growth center, serves to provide longitudinal growth and converts cartilage to bone in the underlying what?
What part of the diaphysis provides for circumferential bone growth?
T or F: When bone growth is completed, wthe epiphysis and physis drop out and are represented by articular cartilage?
Pediatric bone is more or less porous than adult bone?
What is the weakest part of the child's bone?
True or false: bone fractures in children heal faster than they do in adults?
T or F: There are 2 patterns of bone growth after physeal injury - stimulation and overgrowth, or shortening and angulation?
Compartment syndrome is most often associated with what type of fracture?
An infant's fracture may become fixed in how long
T or F: Lower extremity fractures heal in an average of 1 - 2 weeks in a toddler?
How are the combination of vascular injury and fracture managed?
Which type of Salter fracture can result from a birth injury along the physis?
This is a fracture crushing the epiphyseal plate.
Epiphyseal and physeal injury, rarely associated with growth problems.
Epiphyseal and metaphyseal injury, often in the humerus or tibia.
This is a fracture along the physis into the metaphysis. It is the most common Salter fracture.
This is a shearing separation of epiphysis from metaphysis
T or F: The treatment for a proximal humerus fracture is usually Velpeau sling for three weeks?
T or F: The treatment for a proximal radial epiphysis fracture is usually open reduction?
What nerve is most commonly injured with a humerus fracture?
What injury is associated with a supracondylar fracture?
Most radial and ulnar fractures in kids must be immobilized for how long?
T or F: Femoral shaft or neck fractures are associated with later growth problems.
Dislocations are less or more common in children?
Which is NOT a complications of fracture?
True or false: amputation rates following major vascular injuries in children are about 2 times that seen in adults?
The smaller the child, the more prone to vascular spasm; this may last for up to how many hours?
T or F: Traumatic artery-vein fistula may result in impressive limb shortening.
Which would be noted first - overgrowth, or limb shortening?
What percentage of vascular injuries in childhood are penetrating?
Which choice is the safest location for umbilical artery catheters?
True or false: Superior vena caval thrombosis may result in a communicating hydrocephalus?
What ankle-brachial index is considered abnormal in children?
Urokinase will usually begin to show clot lysis within how many hours?
After vascular injury, what is the incidence of growth disturbance in children?