13K views · 323 reactions | Nursemaid’s elbow (aka radial head subluxation) affects over 20,000 children per year in the US with over 80% of those patients being between the ages of 1 and 3. Follow for more emergency medicine content 卵亂 | J Mack Slaughter Jr | Facebook

One of the most common elbow fractures I see is a radial head fracture. If it is non-displaced, it can generally be treated non-operatively. If it is displaced and there are three fragments or fewer, I try to fix it. If there are more than three fragments, replacement is often the best option. In this case, there were more than three fragments with distal fracture line extension into the radial neck, so long stem radial head replacement was selected. The patient was allowed to do early gentle el