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Write short note on the following:
Thomas Splint
Short Note
Solution
- It is named after the famous British Orthopaedic surgeon, Thomas Hugh Owen. He introduced a splint for immobilisation of the hip, a knee splint.
- It is a metal splint which consists of ring at the end to fit around the upper arm or leg, and two shafts extending down the side of the limb in a long ‘U’ shape with a crosspiece of the bottom where the traction is applied.
- It can be used in fracture of thigh, bone, near the knee and leg. A splint can be used except when there is big wound which makes the use of splint painful.
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