Dem bones!

We had a bone fracture repair lab yesterday where we placed pins and cerclage wire to stabilize oblique fractures on plastic femurs and tibias. My partners and I took a lot of photos, which must've looked funny to my other classmates. But I thought it was really cool.

Me placing an intramedullary pin through the long axis of the bone.

A screw pin being placed across the oblique fracture.

Laura, my lovely partner.

Cerclage wire being fitted over the screw pin and tightened to hold the fracture closed.

Laura and Vanessa holding our stabilized femur fracture with an IM pin, cerclage wire and an external fixator.