Injuries following road accidents

Re: Injuries following road accidents

Utlendigur — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:09:54 GMT

No pictures sorry. It wasn't a big deficit - there's not much soft tissue in that area, so it doesn't take much to get down to bone. I managed to get a lag screw across the tibial fracture, screws and wire to repair the colateral ligament damage, sutured what I could and managed the rest as an open wound.

Re: Injuries following road accidents

Jenny Smith — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 03:05:12 GMT

Bizarre usually equals VERY interesting for me!

Thanks for everyone's contributions so far, I've already had a few cases put online so they will be collated with everything else I have so far and added to the pile of numbers to be analysed :D

[quote user="Utlendigur"]One owner phone up saying her dog's leg was "hanging off". For once she was right. It had a very distal tibial fracture and a medial shear injury to the hock. All that was holding it on was a narrow strip of skin/tendons/ligaments on the lateral side - UGA you could actually flip the lower leg 180' and lay the paw on the hip. Amazingly it healed with no complications

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Not to sound in any way weird... but do you have any pictures of that you could upload into the gallery?! How did you go about reconstructing the tissues? Was there much of a deficit or was it just a case of putting the pieces back together?

Jenny

Re: Injuries following road accidents

Utlendigur — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:52:25 GMT

[quote user="Jenny Smith"]On a slightly related topic - what have been the most interesting injuries you have seen following a road traffic accident?[/quote]

One owner phone up saying her dog's leg was "hanging off". For once she was right. It had a very distal tibial fracture and a medial shear injury to the hock. All that was holding it on was a narrow strip of skin/tendons/ligaments on the lateral side - UGA you could actually flip the lower leg 180' and lay the paw on the hip. Amazingly it healed with no complications

Also a cat that managed to amputate its leg from mid tibia to distal metatarsus but leaving the paw attached by a strip of skin.

Re: Injuries following road accidents

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 00:56:36 GMT

[quote user="Jenny Smith"]n a slightly related topic - what have been the most interesting injuries you have seen following a road traffic accident?[/quote]

Interesting, or bizarre?

Bilateral hip dislocation, with no fractures whatever: I can't work out how that happened.

I guess what is interesting depends upon what interests one! Personally I find that reconstructing a smashed skull is always interesting and rewarding.

Re: Injuries following road accidents

Mark Hedberg — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:59:09 GMT

Femoral head fracture is the one that amazes me most; remove the broken head and the animal is using the limb in an amazingly short time. :)