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Erik Kubiak, MD (Las Vegas, NV), delivers a modern take on cerclage fracture management. He addresses the common challenges with traditional cerclage cables and the evolution of nonmetallic techniques. Part of this evolution is the development of radiopaque FiberTape® cerclage, and Dr. Kubiak presents cases highlighting the use and benefits of this technology.

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A Modern Take on Cerclage With Radiopaque FiberTape® Cerclage

Kubiak from Las Vegas, Nevada. Here to give a modern take on cerclage technique. Cerclage cables in any application of trauma have always sort of carried the concerns about breakage of implants. Issues with fracture security, metal fretting, potential vascular injury as a result of these sharp metal fragments injuring vessels and the proximity, and then particularly in the proximal femur. Third body where where you have little bits of metal from the broken cerclage cables involving themselves or wandering into the articular surface of the hip. Classically, these techniques are used like this to secure the femur, particularly in periprosthetic settings or in implant revision settings. We've sort of struggled with the metal implants and have evolved over the last 20 years to using polymer implants. The first of these was a nylon polymer implant with a polyethylene core. We've really moved away from that implant to a uhmwpe fiber tape implant. Issues with that fiber tape implant on initial presentation, where not everyone was comfortable with an implant they could not see radiographically. Henceforth, the development of a bismuth trioxide impregnated uhmwpe implant, which is radiopaque and leaves evidence of the surgeons activity on radiographs. Postoperatively. Issues with fracture security as demonstrated by the old metal implants. An evolution of that technique to a oraf dominant fixation construct, where the cerclage cables are used for provisional fixation, which is kind of where we've gone. And again, issues with potential metal dissimilarity. The cerclage cable versus the plate, and again, not free of the risks of breakage. And the third body migration into the articular surface. This is the bismuth impregnated uhmwpe material recognizable by its yellow color. And in this circumstance used to reconstruct after a clamshell osteotomy for a Vancouver B periprosthetic femur fracture complex. Periarticular trochanteric femur fracture. Not really amenable to oraf. Raf going to be treated with a total joint arthroplasty. This is the case where we used the cerclage cables to reconstruct the femur around an implant. And as evidenced on these fluoro images, you can see the radiopaque cerclage material quite readily on multiple views of this femur. And then this person, due to some GI distress, ended up with a CT scan almost three months later. And you can see that the cerclage cables are readily apparent on the CT scan as well. Another case 78 year old female poor bone quality sick patient. Pre-existing hip osteoarthritis, which necessitated a total hip arthroplasty. You can see here as circled the presence of the radiopaque cerclage cable fiber tape around the proximal femur. And then on the post-op films on the post-op plain films, again, the readily apparent cerclage cable fiber tape in its location were placed still secure at three months. More and more frequently, we see periprosthetic fracture around the proximal humerus. This is often a almost a more difficult situation than the femur because the bone quality is so poor. We're working to find improved fixation techniques to maintain stability of these fractures and allow patients to regain function in their arm and try to restore bone stock. And these circumstances were now sort of evolved to using allograft bone struts with multiple cerclage tapes for fixation allograft strut prepared with grooves to maintain the position of the cerclage cables when passed, and then application of those as seen in these fluoro images you can see there, they're readily apparent radiopaque fiber tapes or collage around the implant, both in the fluoro and in the post-op period, as evidenced here in these plain films. The evolution of this suture material going from a fiber tape cerclage to a fiber spacer collage with its now radiopaque, it results in the same strong fixation readily visible on fluoro radiographs and CT. It has the advantage of being retention able with little to no concern of third body wear, and it's easy on the bone. We don't see the subsurface resorption that we did with the nylon polymer constructs. Thank you.

A Modern Take on Cerclage With Radiopaque FiberTape® Cerclage

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At the Orthopedic Trauma Fellowship Forum, Jack W. Weick, MD (Columbus, OH), presents an overview of the indications, operative setup, and surgical approaches for scapular fixation.

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Michael A. Gallizzi, MD (Vail, CO), discusses a salvage medial branch transection (MBT) procedure as a definitive solution for a 36-year-old female with right-sided low-back pain after two previous rounds of radiofrequency ablation provided only temporary relief.

MBT as a Definitive Solution After Temporary Relief From Radiofrequency Ablation

As a medial branch. Transection procedure continues to grow in popularity. More and more patients are going to present to your office that have had previous radiofrequency ablation. That may not have lasted very long for them. So essentially, a lot of these patients will continue to have repetitive rfas, and their effectiveness continues to get shorter and shorter over time. But they still were effective for the time that they had the ablation. What a salvage medial branch transection can do is bring that effectiveness back to them as a definitive procedure for their back pain. Today, we're looking at a 36 year old female soccer player who had continuous right sided low back pain. She had two previous rounds of radiofrequency ablation. Unfortunately, the radiofrequency ablation on both of those rounds lasted less than three months, but it did hit the spot. Typically, these patients have had some success with the radiofrequency ablations. The pain relief just doesn't last. And for these patients, a salvage medial branch transection is a great option as a definitive procedure for their back pain. One thing to check radiographically with these patients is to make sure that they don't have any instability on flexion, extension, x rays, or any other contraindication that would tell us a medial branch transection shouldn't be performed for this patient. What I look for is patients that have a stable spine, with no evidence of slipping more than two millimeters on flexion extension x rays. The diagnosis for these patients has typically already been proven with successful medial branch blocks and or radiofrequency ablations that have treated that area, but the ablation has just not lasted. Many times, these patients have had multiple rfas over years and months, and they just keep going back for this short lived treatment. The revision medial branch transection is a great salvage procedure to be able to make that feeling of pain relief permanent. When I'm performing the treatment for a medial branch Transection revision. What I want to make sure you understand is how much scar tissue is going to be present from the previous radiofrequency ablations. The ablations have essentially caused a huge scar ball to form by that thermal injury to all the surrounding tissue. So really identifying the floor of the transverse process and moving out laterally to the accessory process as your lateral extent. Now what you're going to do is move both cranial and caudal on that transverse process to be able to start peeling back all that scar tissue. What you really want to avoid is going lateral to the accessory process, because in that area you're going to start getting the lateral branch that innervates the deep paraspinal musculature. You also want to avoid going to cranial or caudal, as we don't want to enter the neuro foramen, where the exiting nerve roots are coming out, as that can cause a neurologic injury. So being very careful on palpating and always making sure you're on bone is very important to a revision. Medial branch transection. Once your exposure is complete and you can adequately visualize the landmarks that we just discussed, what you really want to do is find that medial branch coursing out of the cranial neural foramen, down in between the accessory process and the lateral aspect of the facet joint. What you want to do next is find that branch, transect it with either punch or scissors to be able to completely renovate the medial branch, and then once that is complete, you take your high frequency RF probe and essentially denude all the neural tissue from the lateral facet wall all the way to the accessory process. This patient had an excellent clinical outcome since the two week post-operative period. They have been pain free, and she was able to return to all her mountain athletic activities without any recurrence in her pain. Postoperatively. What we do is we do put in some nylon sutures that we leave in for about two weeks. Well during that time period, we let them get back to their ADLs and walking, but really don't let them push any athletic activity. Once the sutures out and the skin has completely healed, we begin a scar massage routine in physical therapy to be able to get the soft tissue planes to slide. And then we get them into sports specific physical therapy as needed, to help them optimize whatever sport they want to get back to. Being able to offer your patients a salvage for a previous successful RFA that just isn't lasting, allows them to get back to their activities in less than two weeks. Really gives a motion preservation procedure that allows them to continue to avoid any talk of fusion. This is a low risk, high reward offering in the setting of a failed previous RFA and allows immediate return to sport and improvement of their spinal pain and low back pain without any talk of a spinal fusion.

MBT as a Definitive Solution After Temporary Relief From Radiofrequency Ablation

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Patrick J. Denard, MD (Medford, OR), reviews recent literature regarding the efficacy of physical exams and MRI in recognizing subscapularis tears. He discusses two retrospective reviews of more than 800 patients demonstrating that subscapularis tears are difficult to detect accurately and consistently on physical exam and MRI. Therefore, it is important to confirm the integrity of the subscapularis arthroscopically, which is simplified with the ability to switch between 30, 70, and ultrawide view modes with the Pano™ scope and Synergy Vision™ system.
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Subscapularis Tears Presentation Series (Part 1): Recognition

Speaker  I'm Patrick Denard from Medford, Oregon. I want to share with you a couple of recent articles we've published on the recognition of Subscapularis teres, which point out some findings that I think will help you in your practice. The first study I want to share with you evaluated the bear hug test, and we compared that to the performance of a belly press test. This is a retrospective study of my patients over a ten year period. I want to point out, first of all, that in over 2000 rotator cuff tears, I found a subscapularis tear in about one third of cases. So it's important to note that prevalence. We correlated arthroscopic findings with the performance of the belly press and the bear hug tests, and compared that to a control group of over a couple of hundred patients. You see here this is the data looking at the sensitivity and specificity and performance of the tests. The overall sensitivity of this test is low. So you see that only about 50% of cases are we picking up a subscapularis tear with the bear hug test. Now the sensitivity of the test progresses as the tear size increases. But I want to point out to you that for type one tears or partial thickness tears, neither the bear hug or the belly press test is really going to pick up the majority of tears. Speaker  Once you get to full thickness tears, the performance really increases. In other words, what this means is that if you have a negative bear hug or belly press test, you really cannot rule out a subscapularis tear. You really have to rely on your arthroscopic findings. So your take homes here are. The Bear Hug test is twice as sensitive as the belly press test. The belly press test really does not add anything in terms of sensitivity. But still, many tears can be missed, especially for the partial thickness tears. You're really not going to get positive tests in the majority of cases until you get full thickness tears. So really, again, make sure you look at every case arthroscopically to confirm whether or not there is a subscapularis tear. In this next study, we compared the performance of radiologists to surgeons being me in identifying a subscapularis tear based on MRI. Again, we performed a retrospective review of over 800 subscapularis teres. We correlated MRI findings preoperatively by the radiologist or my interpretation with those arthroscopically, and also used a control group to make sure we were controlling for all factors. So this table here looks at the performance of radiologists compared to my interpretation of Subscapularis teres based on the MRI. Speaker  You can see that the radiologist missed about 50% of the tears. My performance was about 70% and that was based on having both the MRI with the examination and the clinical history of the patient at that time. One of the things that's important to note is similar to the performance of Bear Hug and belly press tests. The interpretation really gets better as the tear size increases. So for partial tears, both the radiologists and I missed many of those tears based on MRI. Once it got to a full thickness tear, I was able to pick up about 80% and that increased as tear size increased one once again. So the take home here is that radiologists only identify about 50% of subscapularis teres. Overall, you can see that surgeon accuracy is improved with the combination of having a high index of suspicion and be able to use the examination as well. So the real point here is that you cannot rely on the radiologist's interpretation alone. You have to make your own interpretation of that MRI. Combine that with physical examination findings. But yet once again, really make sure that you're confirming arthroscopically, especially for those partial tears that you're going to have a high chance of missing based on MRI alone.

Subscapularis Tears Presentation Series (Part 1): Recognition

Seth I. Gasser, MD (Tampa, FL), shares his firsthand experience with the Synergy Power™ system—highlighting how it streamlines workflow within a facility and why it is his preferred powered instrument solution in the OR.

Dr. Seth I. Gasser Surgeon Testimonial: Synergy Power™ System

Speaker  Energy. Power has really changed the way our team works and functions. It's streamlined the work process, including setup times and surgical times with just two hand pieces. It covers our broad range of needs throughout any procedure. It's reliable. Powerful. Versatile. The frequent changes required often during surgery are quick and easy, with a unique design of the hand pieces. It's very easy for the scrub tech to make a quick change. I don't worry about them having difficulty, and my focus is really on the surgery and the patient because I'm confident that the equipment will work as it's supposed to. It provides a balance of comfort and performance. It has a lighter feel. And it's the kind of comfort that really adds up over the course of long, difficult cases. Arthrex has been a leader and innovator as long as I've been in practice over the past 33 years. They've answered all of our questions, guided our setups, trained the staff, and really made sure everything ran smoothly before we started. And this is just another example of how Arthrex has made it easier for me as a surgeon to treat my patients better.

Dr. Seth I. Gasser Surgeon Testimonial: Synergy Power™ System

Paul J. Cagle, MD (New York, NY), demonstrates a tunnel-free acromioclavicular repair using the AC FiberTape® cerclage implant system.

AC Repair Using FiberTape® Cerclage

I'm Paul Cagle, a shoulder and elbow surgeon from New York City at Mount Sinai. Today we're going to talk about how to perform a tunnel less AC cerclage. Ac repair. As you'll see here, this is going to demonstrate a no tunnel technique where we're going to have no knots stack superiorly. Let's see how we got this done. This technique allows for a single mini-open approach. This is going to be approximately a three to 3.5cm incision that extends from the superior aspect of the coracoid roughly to approximately about the mid clavicle. And that allows exposure for both the coracoid passage and ultimately the clavicle passage. And this technique today we'll be demonstrating this without drilling any tunnels. So this will be a tunnel less approach. There's a layered exposure utilized for this technique. After our three centimeter incision we're going to identify our fascial planes, which you can see I'm grasping here. Typically a longitudinal opening is performed along the clavicle, which allows us to elevate and clear the clavicle so that we have access to the posterosuperior aspect of the clavicle for later passage. The corners of our deltoid are then elevated and a small T is created. You can see here that we've tagged those corners as I'll show you, and that's for later. Reapproximation and repair. This is the AC cerclage kit we're going to rely on for an AC repair or an AC reconstruction. Let's go through the contents. So here we have the contents of the AC cerclage kit laid out. And this kit really has everything you're going to need to tackle, even the simple or complex AC cerclage indications. And so we see we have two sutures here. One has a needle and one doesn't have a needle. And that really does come in handy sometimes in those areas that may be a little bit more difficult to pass, or be a little bit of a tighter space for your indications where you may choose to go transosseous with a button, the kit comes with a 2.4mm drill and a dogbone button, so the kit comes with convenient passes. Our Transosseous suture passer. Here there is a passer that utilizes a nitinol guide wire, and then we have a separate passer that's very helpful for getting around the clavicle. We have our mega loader, and conveniently that's going to come with a suture tape fiberlink as well as a tiger link. That way you can keep your sutures separate and identified if you're going to be passing a graft as well. When I go to pass a graft, I do like to dilate or make sure I have the space to get that graft around my coracoid and around my clavicle. And the dilating passer here will help you do that without a lot of extra dissection. Finally, the single use tensioner is going to be used today to get that reduction to hold it and ultimately get our alignment in the AC joint. So now let's head over to the patient and fix the pathology. Because this patient's habitus we're going to utilize the smaller passer. And we're going to go from medial to lateral for safety. So here we're going to pass this from medial to lateral. And many times we can use an army to simply expose that aspect laterally. And we're going to wiggle this through until we're through the soft tissue. And then advanced our suture which is going to be used for ultimate passing. In the occasion you need additional clearance around our coracoid we can utilize a dilator, and this dilator is going to provide increased clearance and clearance around the medial and lateral aspect. So in this case we will again pass from medial to lateral. I'm going to pass our dilator. And that demonstrates easy passage around our coracoid. Our dilator then can act as the final suture passer. And so we're going to take now our cerclage suture. We're going to pass this through our dilator and pass this again for safety purposes. Medial to lateral. The next step is to pass the end of our cerclage around the clavicle. It's important to pass this from anterosuperior to posteroinferior. That allows the suture to come out inferior to the clavicle, placing the knot inferior, decreasing the risk of soft tissue irritation. Again, the clavicle passer here is an opportune instrument to pass the suture. We'll identify our clavicle. We're going to pass our suture. Around. As you can see, we're going to wiggle this free until some of that soft tissue is off of our instrument. We'll then take our end of our suture. We're going to pass this through. And that will again pass. So ultimately the knot is going to be inferior to the clavicle. At this point we need to ensure that this is shuttled. And so we're going to carefully reduce this so that we bring the knot mechanism as close to the patient as possible. And we'd like to make sure the tension on the sutures is equal. As you can see, we're going to work a little bit of that slack out here. And it gives us excellent control of our clavicle. Next we'll simply pass our suture. And this is going to be reduced to the pre-tied knot mechanism. And again, it is nice to be able to get the slack out of this system and to reduce this along the inferior clavicle, as we're seeing here. Now, at this point in time, I sort of consider this procedure almost done, because the tensioning device we're going to use next is ultimately going to assist us in providing our final reduction. We now have our tensioning device. We will take one limb of the suture and pass it through the eyelet. And the second limb of the suture is going to pass just directly adjacent to this. And this is going to be brought directly down onto the knot. At this point in time you would like to obtain. A good tight fixation. And so we're going to tension these. Each sequentially on each side. And now we're going to just make small turns. And it's important to keep an eye on your clavicle and your construct to ensure you're watching your reduction as this goes. We'll see. Here is there's demarcations along the back of our tensioning device. And you can see as we release tension, those go in. As we increase tension we'll see our second line. The majority of the time to obtain good AC joint reduction, we are typically going to get to roughly our fourth line. We're going to continue to attention here. As you can see, we're getting close to the fourth line here. And we'll see now is we now have rigid reduction of our AC joint. Sometimes, as we can see here, there's a bit of soft tissue creep that occurs as that suture compresses along the periosteal surface of the bones. It's important to identify that because you're going to want to get that extra quarter turn or half a turn to make up for that compression from the very rigid fixation the AC cerclage allows. So next we're going to take our sutures off, and we're going to throw a half hitch not to tension this down. We'll bring. It's important to unscrew our tensioning device because that allows us to regain our tension. We'll slide back. We are going to throw a half hitch, and then this becomes an extremely elegant tensioning knot pusher. I'm going to bring this down here. We'll bring this directly adjacent. And again we simply repeat the steps of tensioning again ensuring that we have good wrap on each side so that there is ideal tension. Now at this point in time our fixation is done. We can back this up with numerous series of half hitch nuts given, as you see, that suture has brought our not far inferior to the clavicle. At this point we would simply cut. We've obtained our reduction.

AC Repair Using FiberTape® Cerclage

Erik Kubiak, MD (Las Vegas, NV), presents the Arthrex extra-articular distal humerus plate for distal ⅓ shaft fracture fixation. The Arthrex Elbow Plating System provides a comprehensive solution for distal humerus and olecranon fracture fixation, using next-generation KreuLock™ locking compression screws. Dr. Kubiak has positioned the patient using the ElbowLOC® arm positioning system.

Distal Humerus Shaft Fracture Fixation Using the Extra-Articular Plate From the Arthrex Elbow Plating System

So Eric Kubiak from Las Vegas, Nevada. Today we're going to demonstrate application of the extra articular humerus plate through a posterior approach to humerus. We'll go through some anatomy, show you the salient structure at risk, which is the radial nerve, and then go through plate length options. My preference is to do these operations without the tourniquet, for the reason being that the tourniquet tends to shorten the surgical field and puts the radial nerve, which is the structure, at risk, potentially tethered and stuck under the plate. So of the plates this is the shortest. This is the longest. Operating holes increase by two holes as we escalate the plate sizes. You can see for this specimen this person the longest plate would be too long. These plates are differentiated from the conventional periarticular distal humerus plates in that they're much thicker. They're A35 plate in stiffness. Whereas the conventional periarticular plates are thinner and less stiff. These are really meant to treat those hybrid fractures, which are a combination of a shaft meta diaphyseal injury, the distal humerus. I tend to use these plates more than I use the periarticular plates. I tend to fix most of these with a longer, stouter lateral plate and then the appropriate medial plate. The design concept here is that the shaft plate and the periarticular plate have very similar distal screw pattern. To address the periarticular fracture. This distal screw cluster can either use the three five screws or two seven screws. I tend to treat most of these fractures with a stout lateral plate and appropriate periarticular medial plate as necessary. The only difference in the distal screw pattern between the periarticular plate and the extra articular distal humerus plate is the addition of this cross tab, which would allow screw across the trochlea. Important features of a direct posterior approach to the humerus would be positioning. So most of the patients we're doing lateral over an arm holder. Other people do them prone over a similar arm holder with the elbow to be extended or flexed. The incision is centered over the center of the triceps for an extra articular injury or an extra articular humeral shaft fracture. I often don't need to develop the medial side of this approach. If you do not develop the medial side, I would say you have to be very careful of the ulnar nerve or trapping the ulnar nerve, which is just on the other side of the humerus. So retractor is placed under the triceps, can catch the ulnar nerve and inadvertently injure it when the patient triceps is immobilized out of the way. The easiest way to do this is in skin incision down on the fascia over the triceps. Open the triceps fascia, and then elevate the triceps off this overlying fascia. That'll allow you to find the cutaneous branch of the radial nerve, which then will take you to the radial nerve. When you're actually doing the live dissection, the vessels that travel with the radial nerve can be quite bloody. And so we use a bipolar cautery because you're cauterizing right around the nerve. And it's easier than using the pickups in the cautery. Electrocautery. The other thing I would say is, when you're doing this approach and you're mobilizing the radial nerve, make sure you get underneath of it and make sure you can get underneath of it proximally and distally. Most of the time when I'm doing this procedure, I'm demonstrating it. We go up all the way to the deltoid and, and come to the confluence of the two heads of the triceps and the deltoid. That kind of marks the top of this incision for me. Once I'm here, then I can track back. If you're having trouble finding the radial nerve, go to a place that's safe distally. Work proximally. Go to a safe place proximally. Work distally and find the nerve between the two approaches. That's a really easy way to get at it without getting in too much trouble. When you need to do that, most of the time it's because this is a fracture that's gone on to nonunion, and you're picking the nerve out of the nonunion ball. So in that circumstance, just come somewhere where you're safe proximately somewhere you're safe distally, and work until you find the radial nerve in between the two. One of the important points of humerus fractures is the humerus. Has some curve to it in the anterior posterior plane, or in the coronal plane, it has a radius of curvature. These plates also have a radius of curvature in that coronal plane. This particular patient has an extra kind of kink in the distal third of the humerus, where if this was broken, we'd probably just take the kink away and reduce it. Take this. But in this circumstance, we had to put a little bit of a bend in the plate to facilitate her anatomy. Again, the plate's going to come up under the radial nerve. Be fitted to the distal humerus and the shaft of the humerus. Be really careful of the radial nerve. Try not to wind it up in the drill bits, screws, etc. and then in the dictation we always dictate where the nerve passed over the plate. So in this circumstance we would say the nerve passed over the first proximal hole. Again true three five screws. So 2.5mm drill bit. By cortical. This should always in most human beings is going to be 26 to 28. So this is measuring 26. Titanium is really nice. Now the one thing I would say is in this circumstance where the pulling the apex into position tended to lift the one end of the plate or the other off. I would fix to the metastasis first, because that's going to be my dominant thing that I'm worried about. Fix the metastasis first and then draw the bone to the plate. Calibrated drill guide has two marks on the drill bit. The first mark is for the short side so up to 50mm. So as you can imagine we're at 15 and there's 15mm of drill bit extended exposed. If you come up to the second line drilling across the trochlea, the double mark starts at 55, 60, 65, 70. Drilling towards the coronoid. If you're really in the coronoid can be up to 30. Most of the time down here it's going to be 16 something like that. So we're at 26 here. So 2627. My preference is pin the plate. Conventional compression screws. And then if if locking screws or fixed angle screws are indicated A, i.e. secondary to bone quality. Then I would go to the fixed angle screws or locking screws. After I'd already put the cortical screws in place, you can see how the plate pulls really nice down the bone appropriate to the bone. Once that plate's appropriate to the bone. The other cortical screw. And you've got this like really, really perfect plate contour plate sitting against the humerus. Appropriate. So this would be the intermediate step of this procedure. You have the plate pinned to the bone fracture reduced plate pinned to the bone. And then the cortical screws pulling the bone plate construct so that it's appropriately fit. Now when you look from the lateral sort of at the lateral aspect of the humerus, you can see this really nice plate contour fitting the humerus appropriately address, you know, appropriate to the bow of the humerus and a really nice distal fit to the distal humerus, which is going to be important because there's not a lot of soft tissue on the and the distal aspect the lateral humerus. If you feel it, and people will feel that plate pretty easily. So the number one reason to take these plates out is that distal lateral prominence. And again that's why you got to be a little careful about the radial nerve because you'll be pulling these things out. So so we're here we're going to demonstrate the three five distal lock. So 2.5mm drill 2.5mm calibrated cannula. Same concept with the single mark marks the depth. When I place this screw, I don't try to go by cortical because I know it's going right for the coronoid and the radial head. So here we're. About 22 3.5mm locking screw. With the. Limiting torque limiting attachment which if you're going to place locking screws with power. I would always recommend using the torque limiter, and then you can come back and address them by hand at the end to make yourself feel better, but I would always use a torque limiter with power. You know, when we first pull the plate down, often we're using we're measuring a screw from a plate that's not on the bone. For me, I'm going to pull it down and don't change these screws, which are obviously long on the lateral. The distal screws obviously long. I would place the distal locking screw first before changing this screw and shortening it. If you don't do that then the plate can pull off the bone. You can lose the reduction. The goal in my life is to obtain the reduction, then maintain that reduction until the patient's healed. And nowhere along those lines sort of lose the reduction. So I don't want to lose reduction once I've sort of gotten the fixation started. So this screw will be shortened after the definitive locking screws are placed. Final plate bone construct demonstrating a typical pattern of fixation with multiple screws placed into the Capitellum them these screws for me. Fixed angle variable angle screws are helpful because I like divergent or convergent screws to to really maximize fixation in this distal metaphyseal bone. The distal fragment will also have a minimum of a cortical screw and a fixed angle screw to really lock in that lateral column. Again, we'll go through the typical spiral fracture of the distal humerus. The proximal shaft fragment needs a minimum of three points of fixation. That's going to be, in most intents and purposes, a cortical screw to help hold the plate bone construct where it needs, and then backed up by locking screws or fixed angle screws. At a minimum, I would say of two, but I like three is kind of the number that I'm going to shoot for. And again, the radial nerve crossing over the top of the plate and making sure that all the additional wires are put in, all that stuff's removed.

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PARS Achilles Jig System

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