Tag: Scaphoid Fracture

Casting Doubt: The SUSPECT Trial — Bandaging Vs. Casting for Suspected Occult Scaphoid Fracture

by Marco Propersi posted July 14, 2025 No Comments

Managing patients with suspected occult scaphoid fractures and normal X-rays presents a common clinical dilemma. About 1 in 10 of these patients will have an occult fracture, and roughly 10% of all scaphoid fractures result in nonunion. However, the risk ...

Orthopedics

The SWIFFT Trial: To Cut or To Cast – That Is the Question

by Jenny Beck-Esmay, MD posted September 28, 2020 No Comments

Background: FOOSH injuries, or falls onto outstretched hands, are a common presentation to the emergency department, and can frequently result in scaphoid fractures. In fact, scaphoid fractures “account for 90% of all carpal fractures and 2-7% of all fractures” (Dias). The ...

Orthopedics