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News As It Happens
The news is that I have been a little lax in updating my site - work pressures etc. Anyway now I am up and running once again let me tell you something fairly exciting. Reporting Allowances - at present very few trusts are giving reporting radiographers reporting allowances, however my colleague and I are trying to get evidence together along the lines of the sonographers to receive what we believe is rightfully ours. So far it is working pretty much as planned, but I am not counting my chickens before they hatch. So all you reporting radiographers wanting an allowance watch this space..............

Check out the all new sister site just up and running(well ambling) along. All new subject matter including Pneumothorax for beginners, Avascular necrosis and periosteal reactions. Just click on the skeleton to take you there

Also there is now a femur and pelvis page, which will have even more information on it, as I get it.
Plus more information, if you need it, on the orthopaedics' favourite - Salter Harris classifications.

Lookout for the elbow page

The Supracondylar fracture is one of the commonest fractures of childhood.
There are three main classifications of supracondylar fractures:
The first is undisplaced and may not show radiographically.
The second is slightly displaced and will need maanipulation under GA.
The third is very displaced and may need K wiring or open fixation.
I know it sounds very much like I'm obsessed with the elbow, but this happens to be the subject of my first ever assignment, so bear with me guys. For the last month I have eaten, drunk, slept and been to a cosy little dinner for two with the supracondylar fracture. So lets just not call it an obsession, merely a fascination !!!

For those who think I am mad, see above, this is just a vain attempt to inject a little humour into the proceedings.