Reference no: EM132371317

1. A 39-year-old man is in intensive care after a motorcycle accident in which he skidded across the pavement on his right side. He has fractures of his right femur, pelvis, and several ribs on the right side. His right leg was crushed beneath the motorcycle, and he is beginning to lose movement in that leg.

a. What are the priorities in treating his orthopedic injuries? What are the available options for stabilizing his leg?

b. What risk factors for complications of fractures are present?

c. What are the symptoms of compartment syndrome, and how is it treated?

2. A 14-year-old boy complains of recent pain and swelling of the knee, with some restriction in movement. Although he thinks he may have injured his knee playing football, his mother insists that he be seen by an orthopedic specialist and raises the possibility that the boy may have an osteosarcoma.

a. Use the information that osteosarcoma originates in sites of maximal growth velocity to explain the sites of this boy's possible tumor.

b. What diagnostic tests could be used to establish a diagnosis of osteosarcoma?

c. The boy and his family are concerned that he will require radical surgery with amputation of the leg. How would you go about explaining possible treatment options to him