Week 3, Day 13

A slow morning really, I attended the Fracture clinic this morning, not much frame work to see at all. I was asked if I wanted to go to the Physio Department, to see some frame patients being put through their paces. This was enlightening, with respect to the Physios role within the Ilizarov Frame treatment. I saw all ages of patient doing more or less the same range of exercises, this was to achieve bone growth after the application of the frame.

This afternoon was Trauma theatre for Mr R, so went to see if there was anything of interest in the way of a frame. No, but Mr R had heard of a patient being brought into A/E with a distal tibia and fibula fracture, but to what extent was unknown at that time. He told me I could scrub with the Ilizarov Fellow, to aid in the Application of a DVR plate (Distal Volar Reduction Plate), for a distal radius fracture.

I was thrilled to be doing something surgical, albeit not a frame. Mr K (fellow), allowed me to remove some of the fixing grommets which allow a smooth passage for the drill and to help pull skin from the drill site, as not to friction burn the skin. Mr R then came back to see how we was getting on, and to let us know the patient in A/E was to be prepped for the application of a

mono-lateral fixator, as I have said before this is to allow the re-position of the bone and to allow the limb to rest whilst further treatment is being planned.