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Fixate on pin site care

Fixate on pin site care peak technique SUZANNE M. BONNER, RN, CMSRN, BSN Staff Nurse • Good Samaritan Hospital • Baltimore, Md. KATHY BIGGS is a 23-year-old who sus- pins or wires are used to stabilize, secure, tained an open fracture from falling for- and ensure anatomic alignment of the bone, ward on her left arm while inline skating. as well as to provide optimal healing time. She was taken to the emergency depart A patient may need external fixation if she ment, where X-rays showed she had frac- has a simple open or closed fracture, a com- tured the radius of her left arm near the plex fracture with extensive soft tissue dam- epiphysis and within an inch of the wrist age, a congenital or acquired bone or soft tis- joint. Intravenous (I.V.) fluids, a stat pro- sue deformity or defect, nonunion or mal- phylactic dose of cefazolin, an intramuscu- union bones, or limbs of unequal length. lar dose of tetanus toxoid, and 2 mg of mor- Different types of external fixators are phine I.V. every 2 hours as needed for pain available, including: n unilateral fixators that provide fixation on were ordered. Kathy was then taken to the operating room, where the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! Wolters Kluwer Health

Fixate on pin site care

BONNER, SUZANNE M.
Nursing Made Incredibly Easy! , Volume 5 (4) – Jul 1, 2007
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peak technique SUZANNE M. BONNER, RN, CMSRN, BSN Staff Nurse • Good Samaritan Hospital • Baltimore, Md. KATHY BIGGS is a 23-year-old who sus- pins or wires are used to stabilize, secure, tained an open fracture from falling for- and ensure anatomic alignment of the bone, ward on her left arm while inline skating. as well as to provide optimal healing time. She was taken to the emergency depart A patient may need external fixation if she ment, where X-rays showed she had frac- has a simple open or closed fracture, a com- tured the radius of her left arm near the plex fracture with extensive soft tissue dam- epiphysis and within an inch of the wrist age, a congenital or acquired bone or soft tis- joint. Intravenous (I.V.) fluids, a stat pro- sue deformity or defect, nonunion or mal- phylactic dose of cefazolin, an intramuscu- union bones, or limbs of unequal length. lar dose of tetanus toxoid, and 2 mg of mor- Different types of external fixators are phine I.V. every 2 hours as needed for pain available, including: n unilateral fixators that provide fixation on were ordered. Kathy was then taken to the operating room, where the

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