McRae's Orthopaedic Trauma and Emergency Fracture Management
- 4th Edition - February 1, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Timothy O. White, Samuel P. Mackenzie
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 3 6 4 2 - 5
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 3 6 4 3 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 8 4 6 8 4 - 4
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Request a sales quoteMcRae’s Orthopaedic Trauma and Emergency Fracture Management is the essential, best-selling ‘survival guide’ for the orthopaedic surgeon, trainee, resident or practitioner treating injured patients in the Emergency or Orthopaedic Department.
This fourth edition has been extensively updated and rewritten, retaining the essence and underlying principles of McRae’s original book, but with new text and illustrations to ensure it remains at the cutting edge.
This highly regarded book is a companion to McRae’s Elective Orthopaedics, and together these titles provide complete coverage of orthopaedic surgery as relevant to contemporary practice.
- Comprehensive coverage of the full range of orthopaedic trauma presentations in the Emergency Department, operating theatre, and outpatient clinic
- Clear step-by-step illustrations and text guide you through the relevant anatomy, examination, and investigations before you see the patient
- More than 500 illustrations and 250 x-rays
- Practical procedures, including fracture and joint reduction and immobilisation, explained step-by-step
- Careful descriptions of the principals of trauma surgery and individual surgical procedures provide excellent preparation for the trauma meeting and operating theatre
- Covers postoperative care, complications and follow-up, providing a framework for your fracture clinic
Core trainees / SHO level in orthopaedics and A&E / Emergency departments. Foundation year doctors. Senior medical students
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface to the third edition
- Preface to fourth edition
- Dedications and acknowledgements
- Contributors
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Part 1. General Principles
- 1. Fractures and fracture management
- Orthopaedic terminology
- Assessment of a fracture
- Principles of fracture management
- Bone structure and healing
- How to present a radiograph
- 2. Management of the injured patient
- Major trauma
- Intravascular fluid replacement in major trauma
- Decision-making in trauma
- Anaesthesia and analgesia
- Trauma in the elderly
- 3. Limb-threatening injuries
- Closed soft tissue injuries
- Open fractures
- Compartment syndrome
- Crush injuries
- Nerve injury
- Vascular injury
- The mangled limb
- Signpost injuries
- 4. Closed management of fractures
- Reduce: Closed reduction
- Hold: Principles of cast management
- Backslabs
- Full casts
- Limb elevation
- Cast aftercare
- Orthoses
- 5. Operative management of fractures
- Reduce: Closed or open fracture reduction
- Hold: Construct stability
- Fracture gaps (Fig. 5.4)
- Hold: Implant choice
- Move: Activity restriction and weight-bearing
- 6. Musculoskeletal infection and joint aspiration
- Acute arthritis
- Cellulitis
- Necrotizing fasciitis
- Abscesses
- Muscle infection
- Bone infection (osteomyelitis)
- Joint aspiration and injection
- 7. Complications
- Non-union
- Postoperative infection
- Malunion
- Bone defects
- Heterotopic ossification
- Complex regional pain syndrome
- Pathological fractures
- Part 2. Specific Injuries by Region
- 8. Shoulder girdle
- General principles
- Clavicle
- Acromioclavicular joint
- Sternoclavicular joint
- Scapula
- Scapulothoracic dissociation
- Anterior shoulder (glenohumeral) dislocation
- Posterior shoulder dislocation
- Inferior shoulder dislocation (luxatio erecta)
- Rotator cuff tears
- Calcific tendonitis
- Frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis)
- 9. Humerus
- General principles
- Proximal humeral fractures
- Humeral shaft fractures
- Long head of biceps rupture (proximal injury at the shoulder)
- Biceps tendon avulsion (distal injury at the elbow)
- 10. Elbow
- General principles
- Distal humeral fractures
- Radial head and neck fractures
- Olecranon fractures
- Elbow dislocation
- 11. Forearm
- General principles
- Radial shaft fractures
- Ulnar shaft fractures
- Both-bones fracture of the forearm
- Compartment syndrome of the forearm
- 12. Wrist and carpus
- General principles
- Distal radial fractures
- Distal ulnar fractures
- Scaphoid fractures
- Other carpal fractures
- Carpal instability
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Differential diagnoses for acute wrist pain
- 13. Hand
- General principles
- Immobilization of hand injuries
- Metacarpal fractures
- Metacarpal head fractures
- Metacarpal neck fractures
- Metacarpal shaft fractures
- Finger metacarpal base fractures
- Thumb metacarpal base fractures
- Phalangeal fractures
- Proximal and intermediate phalanges: Extra-articular fractures
- Proximal and intermediate phalanges: Intra-articular fractures
- Distal phalanx: Mallet finger injury
- Distal phalanx: Rugger jersey finger
- Distal phalanx: Closed tuft fractures
- Dislocations
- Carpometacarpal joint dislocations
- Thumb metacarpophalangeal joint instability: Ulnar collateral ligament rupture or ‘Gamekeeper’s thumb’
- Metacarpophalangeal joint dislocations
- Proximal interphalangeal joint dislocations
- Distal interphalangeal joint dislocations
- Soft tissue injuries of the hand
- Extensor tendon injury
- Flexor tendon injury
- Fingertip injuries
- Trigger finger
- Hand infections
- Fingertip infections
- Flexor sheath infection
- Septic arthritis
- 14. Spine
- General principles
- Principles of management of major spinal trauma
- Major spinal injuries
- Atlanto-occipital injuries
- Atlanto-axial fractures and instability
- Subaxial cervical fractures C3–C7
- Fractures of the thoracic and lumbar (thoracolumbar) spine
- Sacral fractures
- Spinal cord injuries
- Minor spinal injuries
- Spinous process fractures (Fig. 14.31)
- Coccyx fractures
- Other spinal pathology
- The ambulant patient with back pain
- The ambulant patient with neck pain
- Lumbar radiculopathy
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Spinal infection
- Spondylolisthesis
- 15. Pelvis
- General principles
- Pelvic ring injuries
- 16. Acetabulum
- General principles
- Acetabular fractures
- 17. Hip
- General principles
- Hip fractures
- Hip dislocation
- Femoral head (Pipkin) fractures
- Periprosthetic fractures around the hip
- Atypical hip fractures
- 18. Femur
- General principles
- Femoral shaft fractures
- Distal femoral (supracondylar) fractures
- 19. Knee
- General principles
- Knee dislocation
- Isolated knee ligament injuries
- Tibial spine fractures
- Meniscal injuries
- Quadriceps and patellar tendon ruptures
- Patellar fractures
- Patellar dislocation
- Non-specific soft tissue knee injury
- 20. Tibia
- General principles
- Tibial plateau fractures
- Tibial shaft fractures
- 21. Ankle
- General principles
- Ankle fractures
- Pilon fractures
- Ankle sprains
- Achilles tendon rupture
- Peroneal tendon dislocation
- 22. Foot
- General principles
- Talar fractures
- Subtalar dislocation
- Talar dislocation
- Calcaneal fractures
- Midfoot fractures
- Tarsometatarsal (Lisfranc) injuries
- Metatarsal fractures
- Metatarsophalangeal joint and toe injuries
- Compartment syndrome of the foot
- Foot sprains
- 23. Principles of paediatric trauma
- Trauma in the skeletally immature
- The unique properties of children’s bones
- Physeal injuries
- Types of paediatric fracture
- Interpreting paediatric radiographs
- Neurovascular complications
- Non-accidental injury
- The limping child
- 24. Upper limb paediatric trauma
- Shoulder girdle
- Clavicle
- Scapula
- Proximal humeral fractures
- Glenohumeral dislocation
- Humeral cysts
- Humeral shaft fractures
- Elbow
- Supracondylar fractures of the humerus
- Lateral condylar fractures
- Medial condylar fractures
- Medial epicondylar fractures
- Elbow dislocation
- Olecranon fractures
- Radial head and neck fractures
- Forearm
- Monteggia fracture dislocation
- Galeazzi fracture dislocation
- Diaphyseal fractures of radius and ulna
- Wrist
- Fractures of the distal radius and ulna
- Hand and carpus
- Carpus
- Scaphoid
- Metacarpals and fingers
- 25. Lower limb paediatric trauma
- Pelvis and acetabulum
- Pelvic fractures
- Acetabular fractures
- Hip
- Hip fractures
- Hip dislocation
- Slipped capital femoral epiphysis
- Femur
- Femoral shaft fractures
- Knee
- Fractures of the distal femur
- Patellar dislocation
- Tibial spine fracture and anterior cruciate ligament disruption
- Patellar fracture
- Proximal tibial fractures
- Tibial tuberosity fractures
- Tibial diaphyseal fractures
- Toddler’s fracture
- Distal tibial metaphyseal fractures
- Ankle
- Ankle fractures
- Foot
- Part 3. Training in Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery
- 26. Getting the most from your orthopaedic training
- The unstated training contract
- Getting the best from your theatre time
- Tulips
- Getting the best from clinic time
- Index
- Edition: 4
- Published: February 1, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 648
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323836425
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323836432
- eBook ISBN: 9780323846844
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Timothy O. White
Timothy O White, BMedSci, MBChB, FRCSEd (Tr &Orth), MD, Consultant in Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, University of Edinburgh;
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; Honorary Senior Lecturer in the Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, University of Edinburgh, UKSM
Samuel P. Mackenzie
Samuel P Mackenzie, BMed Sci, MBChB, MRCS, Specialty Trainee, Trauma and Orthopaedic, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; Honorary Teaching Fellow, University of Edinburgh
Affiliations and expertise
Specialty Trainee in Trauma and Orthopaedic, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh; Honorary Teaching Fellow, University of Edinburgh, UK