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Plates and Respect for the Soft Tissues: when to use the Ex Fix vs when the fibula is the answer William T. Obremskey MD MPH MMHC Vanderbilt Orthopedic Trauma A Pilon fx is a SEVERE soft tissue injury The Bones just happen to be


  1. Plates and Respect for the Soft Tissues: when to use the Ex Fix vs when the fibula is the answer William T. Obremskey MD MPH MMHC Vanderbilt Orthopedic Trauma

  2. • A Pilon fx is a SEVERE soft tissue injury… • The Bones just happen to be broken!!

  3. When to Ex Fix? • You are not Defintive Surgeon!! • Ex Fix and Phone a Friend!

  4. • 55 year old man PMH: neg • engineer Non smoker • fall from ladder • isolated L ankle injury O/E

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  8. Staged Treatment • Blood flow and soft tissue oxygenation are impaired after high-energy plafond fx • When NOT to operate! “UNSAFE” CT angiogram post-injury day 2

  9. When to Ex Fix? • Severe Soft tissue injury

  10. Red Blisters Clear Blisters Open Fracture

  11. When to Ex Fix? • Severe Contamination

  12. When to Ex Fix? • Fibula Fx is distal!

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  17. When the Fibula is the Answer • When Shaft fx and SHORT!

  18. Is Routine Plating of the Fibula Necessary? Retrospective review with two groups – one with fibular plating, the other without • Plating 5/22 fibular wound infections (23%), no tibial infections and 1/22 malunion (5%) – MORE FIBULAR PROBLEMS! • No plate –1/31 tibial infections, 6/31 malunions (19%) • Fix fibula – A few wound problems (none needed an operation) is better than Malunions

  19. When to Ex Fix (only)? • You are not Defintive Surgeon!! – Ex Fix and Phone a Friend! • Severe Soft Tissue Injury • Bad Contamination • Fibula is distal • Fibula not fractured

  20. When to Fix Fibula? • Shaft fx and SHORT • You are definitive surgeon

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