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Poker chip fixation? - WestCoast MT

Posted: Dec 01, 2009

Sounds like he is saying the indentation from the poker chip is gone. Poker chip? Is that some sort of fixation technique for fractures? I've never heard of it.

Maybe patient was hit with a poker chip????? - NM

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Pt was in a wild game of Texas Hold Em??? - nm

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Poker chip...sm - babs

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Current external fixation system designs vary, but generally include a mechanism for attaching at least one fixation element to a fixation component to form a construct, or frame, to support a fracture. In general, at least one pin or wire is drilled into the bone.

One current external fixation component design includes two clamps that rotate in one plane to allow limited manipulation of the external fixation component. One jaw of each clamp of this design includes a toothed chip mechanism that has asurface with teeth similar to a poker chip. The teeth mate and lock when compressed, and thereby resist rotation in one plane after the clamps are in place. This poker chip design requires that the two fixation elements retained by the component are parallel to each other in at least one plane that is parallel to the poker chip surface, so that the angular relationship between the two fixation elements is always zero in that plane.

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