Femoral Shaft Fractures

In less than 18 minutes, we cover everything you’ll need to know about femoral shaft fractures.  

Femoral shaft fractures are common injuries in orthopedic surgery. In this video, we tackle the pertinent information that you should know. We discuss the incidence of femoral neck fractures with femoral shaft fractures and the four images you need to obtain to decrease your risk of missing an associated femoral neck fracture. We go over the pertinent anatomy, deforming forces and different treatment modalities. Remember anatomy is KEY, many of your questions while on rotations will be strictly anatomy!