AR-15 To The Leg, (WARNING GRAPHIC!!)

[MAUSERMAN]

I make it a point to be sober and very alert when doing any thing gun related. I do feel bad for the guy because he could lose is job because of a bad decision.

[TAB]

just showed that pic to my wife( ortho surgen)  she says the guy is screwed.  he will  lose his knee joint, when they put in metal, she also said maybe even the hip.  she also mentioned anytime the feamor brakes it will become compound do to the stress on the bone... then some techical stuff, that I won't even protend to know how to spell or even know what she is talking about.

[ericire12]

just showed that pic to my wife( ortho surgen)  she says the guy is screwed.  he will  lose his knee joint, when they put in metal, she also said maybe even the hip.  she also mentioned anytime the feamor brakes it will become compound do to the stress on the bone... then some techical stuff, that I won't even protend to know how to spell or even know what she is talking about.

 

[Timothy]

Math major.......whadareyagonnado?

[Kid Shelleen]

just showed that pic to my wife( ortho surgen)  she says the guy is screwed.  he will  lose his knee joint, when they put in metal, she also said maybe even the hip.  she also mentioned anytime the feamor brakes it will become compound do to the stress on the bone... then some techical stuff, that I won't even protend to know how to spell or even know what she is talking about.

TAB,
I just reviewed the films again and I disagree (perhaps you misunderstood your wife's prognosis). The knee joint is not involved and I see no need for a Total Knee Arthroplasty. There is adequate room to apply a distal femoral plate. The fracture is supracondylar (The LISS plate can even be used for intra-articular fractures). There would be no involvement of the hip unless the repair were done with an intramedullary nail. Perhaps that was her recommended repair. I believe that I would go with a Synthes distal femoral LISS plate. The LISS plate is available in 5 to 13 screw length and could be sized to provide adequate stability both above and below the fracture. Just my .02

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[shooter32]

TAB,
I just reviewed the films again and I disagree (perhaps you misunderstood your wife's prognosis). The knee joint is not involved and I see no need for a Total Knee Arthroplasty. There is adequate room to apply a distal femoral plate. The fracture is supracondylar (The LISS plate can even be used for intra-articular fractures). There would be no involvement of the hip unless the repair were done with an intramedullary nail. Perhaps that was her recommended repair. I believe that I would go with a Synthes distal femoral LISS plate. The LISS plate is available in 5 to 13 screw length and could be sized to provide adequate stability both above and below the fracture. Just my .02

Kid "Doc" Shelleen  our resident MD




 

[Big Frank]

I don't have any medical training but I've seen lots of pictures and x-rays of similar wounds. I think Kid is right about a plate fixing the femur.

[Timothy]

TAB,
I just reviewed the films again and I disagree (perhaps you misunderstood your wife's prognosis). The knee joint is not involved and I see no need for a Total Knee Arthroplasty. There is adequate room to apply a distal femoral plate. The fracture is supracondylar (The LISS plate can even be used for intra-articular fractures). There would be no involvement of the hip unless the repair were done with an intramedullary nail. Perhaps that was her recommended repair. I believe that I would go with a Synthes distal femoral LISS plate. The LISS plate is available in 5 to 13 screw length and could be sized to provide adequate stability both above and below the fracture. Just my .02

Yea!  What he said!

 

[PegLeg45]

TAB,
I just reviewed the films again and I disagree (perhaps you misunderstood your wife's prognosis). The knee joint is not involved and I see no need for a Total Knee Arthroplasty. There is adequate room to apply a distal femoral plate. The fracture is supracondylar (The LISS plate can even be used for intra-articular fractures). There would be no involvement of the hip unless the repair were done with an intramedullary nail. Perhaps that was her recommended repair. I believe that I would go with a Synthes distal femoral LISS plate. The LISS plate is available in 5 to 13 screw length and could be sized to provide adequate stability both above and below the fracture. Just my .02

I don't have any medical training but I've seen lots of pictures and x-rays of similar wounds. I think Kid is right about a plate fixing the femur.

Yea!  What he said!

 

I agree with Kid....and no I ain't a medical professional....and didn't stay at a Holiday Inn........

My left thigh looked about like the photo except without an 'entrance wound'.
I had a major compound fracture and actually lost about a 4" section of the bone completely (they never found it and I envisioned a scraggly-assed little mutt running around a neighborhood playing with it). I also lost a good sized chunk of muscle tissue after multiple debridement surgeries over a month to remove trash and tissue.
With the application of an IM Rod (intermedulliary rod ? Kid?) and an application of a new 'bondo-like' substance called 'calcergen paste' to the missing place where the bone was supposed to be, six months later the bone had grown back together (only 3/4" shorter than it once was). My knee was broken in several places, but they saved it.

He may be OK.

[Pathfinder]

TAB,
I just reviewed the films again and I disagree (perhaps you misunderstood your wife's prognosis). The knee joint is not involved and I see no need for a Total Knee Arthroplasty. There is adequate room to apply a distal femoral plate. The fracture is supracondylar (The LISS plate can even be used for intra-articular fractures). There would be no involvement of the hip unless the repair were done with an intramedullary nail. Perhaps that was her recommended repair. I believe that I would go with a Synthes distal femoral LISS plate. The LISS plate is available in 5 to 13 screw length and could be sized to provide adequate stability both above and below the fracture. Just my .02

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