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September 2022; papers of the month

The Resus Room

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Using Mallet Splints on the Thumbs

The thought of having my thumbs chewed off always makes me feel a little bit nervous, if i'm honest. I don't know about yourself, ye, it's certainly the one that i have seen used in practice most commonly. So here you sit, facing the patient again, whin the assistants stabilizing the head, put your thumbs under the patient's chin and the index middle fingers on to the patient's lower molars. And this has got a reported success of 97% so they then talk about a few other things. The lever technique is where you put a small roll of gauze into the mouth, about three centimeters in diameter, in between their third molers,. Then

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