Session VII - Pediatrics Saturday, October 10, 1998


Moderator: Paul Tornetta, MD
7:30 a.m. Immediate Hip Spica Application for Pediatric Femur Fractures: A Review of 175 Patients

Anthony F. Infante, Jr., DO; Michael W. Albert, MD; Bryan W. Jennings, DO; James T. Lehner, MD, Children's Medical Center, Grand View Hospital, Dayton, OH


7:36 a.m. Ender Rod Fixation for Pediatric Femur Fractures

Kathryn E. Cramer, MD; Paul Tornetta, III, MD; Charles R. Spero, MD; Steven Alter; Hamid Maraliakbar; Jon Teefey, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI; SUNY Health Science Center, Brooklyn, NY


7:42 a.m. Pulmonary Complications in Pediatric Patients with a Femur Fracture

Daniel J. Hedequist, MD; Phillip Wilson, MD; Adam J. Starr, MD; Joan Walker, RN, University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Dallas, TX


7:58 a.m. Fracture Patterns in Children and Young Adults Who Fall from Significant Heights

Jeffrey R. Sawyer, MD; John M. Flynn, MD; John P. Dormans, MD; John Catalano, MD; Denis S. Drummond, MD, The Campbell Clinic, Memphis, TN; Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA


8:04 a.m. Effect of Interposed Periosteum in an Animal Physeal Fracture Model

Laura Senunas Phieffer, MD; J. Michael Wattenbarger, MD; Ralph A. Meyer, Jr., PhD; Helen E. Gruber, PhD; Mark Easley, MD, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, NC


8:16 a.m. Pediatric Supracondylar Humerus Fractures: Long-Term Follow-Up and Comparison of Operative Treatment Methods

Richard T. Davis, BS; John T. Gorczyca, MD; Kevin Pugh, MD, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, KY


8:22 a.m. The Incidence of Compartment Syndrome in Ipsilateral Fractures of the Humerus and Forearm in Children

Laurel C. Blakemore, MD; Daniel R. Cooperman, MD; George H. Thompson, MD; Cynthia Wathey, RN; R. Tracy Ballock, MD, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH


pediatric papers from Session VIII - Upper Extremity Saturday, October 10, 1998
10:24 a.m. Major Pediatric Hand Trauma Associated with Fireworks

Virak Tan, MD; Richard S. Moore, Jr., MD; John P. Dormans, MD; David J. Bozentka, MD, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC