Orthopaedics, Trauma and Spinal Surgery

"There is a fracture; I need to fix it".  Thus is the orthopaedic way, and this section covers the anaesthetic considerations for dealing with our hammer-toting surgical colleagues.

Trauma, and particularly neck of femur fractures, most strongly represents this section in past CRQ's so this may be a pertinent area of focus.

• Trauma
• Pathophysiology of trauma
• Major haemorrhage
• Trauma airways
• C-spine injury
• Neck of femur fracture
• Bone cement implantation syndrome
• Fat embolism syndrome
• Compartment syndrome
• Rib fractures
• Splenic injury (in brief)


• Orthopaedic surgery
• General considerations for arthroplasty, inc. THR and TKR


• Spinal surgery
• General considerations for spinal surgery
• Neurophysiological monitoring
• Scoliosis surgery
• Spinal cord pathology (in brief)
• Chronic spinal cord injury (from the Special Conditions Neurology section)