Colles' Fracture Reduction Trainer, Light

Skills

• Visual inspection & identification
• Reduction of the fracture including:
  • Exaggeration (to dis-impact the fracture)
  • Traction
  • Flexion
• Plastering techniques
• Teamwork and communication when reducing the fracture

Features

• Designed for Emergency Medicine and Orthopaedic Specialist trainees, the Limbs & Things Colles’ Fracture Reduction Trainer offers repeatable practice in fracture reduction of the wrist
• Suitable for training junior doctors, Emergency Nurse Practitioners, staff nurses, Orthopaedic Practitioners (or Plasterer Technicians) and Health Care Assistants (HCAs)
• The Colles’ Fracture Reduction Trainer represents a fractured distal fragment of the radius and enables trainees to carry out the full procedure, diagnosis through visual inspections, reduction procedure and plastering the arm
• For more accurate real-life simulations, the Colles’ trainer has an adjustable tension mechanism that allows for various levels of difficulty, making it ideal for advanced learning
• The design also allows for common mistakes to occur such as a partially reduced fractures, and if the arm is not held correctly when plastered, it will pop back to the original state
• The model has been designed in collaboration with Dr Salwa Malik of Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust and Dr Yasir M. Shaukat of Surrey and Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust
• Adjustable tension allows for progressive levels of difficulty
• Trainees can perform all three stages of reduction:
  • Exaggeration (to dis-impact the fracture)
  • Traction
  • Flexion
• Accommodates various plastering techniques, including:
  • Back slab
  • Circular cast
  • Sugar-tong splint
  • 3-point moulds
• Stand allows the Colles’ Fracture arm to be placed at a variety of heights for different patient scenarios
• Fractured distal fragment of radius, and head & body of the ulna bone for visual and palpable identification
• Realistic representation of a distal angulation (dinner-fork) deformity
• Life-like haptic feedback when conducting the procedure
• Adjustable tension makes this trainer a perfect tool for OSCE courses
• The stand allows the Colles’ Fracture arm to be placed at a variety of heights for different patient scenarios
• This product can be used with a simulated patient
• Anatomically accurate:
  • Fractured distal fragment of radius
  • Head and body of the ulna