The addition of training focused on fracture reduction and molding technique to orthopedic juniors’ induction teaching or as a separate session helped improve rates of fracture redisplacement, according to a study.
Study results showed 85% of patients had adequate fracture reduction in group one; however, only 36% showed adequate molding. In group two, 94% showed adequate reduction and 65% showed adequate molding. Group two also had an improvement in redisplacement rate, from 65% to 44%.
The researchers found a redisplacement rate of 20% for adequately reduced and molded fractures, compared with a rate of approximately 90% for adequately reduced but inadequately molded cases, in both groups. The rate of further intervention improved from 27% to 8% between the two groups, according to the researchers.
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