CME expires May 31, 2027
Enhance your skills to increase accuracy in diagnosing musculoskeletal injuries and conditions.
This compilation collects the following Diagnosis Spotlight courses in a thorough examination of acute injuries of the wrist:
Diagnosis Spotlight: Distal Radius Fractures
Diagnosis Spotlight: Hook of Hamate Fractures
Diagnosis Spotlight: Perilunate Dislocations and Fracture-Dislocations
Diagnosis Spotlight: Radiocarpal Dislocations and Fracture-Dislocations
Diagnosis Spotlight: Scaphoid Fractures
Diagnosis Spotlight: Triquetral Avulsion Fractures
Note: The content of this compilation matches the content of the associated individual courses. If you purchase this compilation, there is no need to purchase the associated individual courses.
Welcome to Diagnosis Spotlight, a comprehensive educational course geared for orthopaedic surgeons at all career stages. This course is designed to address a critical aspect of orthopaedic practice—enhancing the accuracy of diagnosis of musculoskeletal injuries and conditions. Each course focuses on the pearls and pitfalls for avoiding missed diagnoses and diagnostic errors, with an emphasis on mastering clinical evaluation, recognizing specific imaging findings, systematically evaluating differential diagnoses, and reviewing injury treatment strategies. Enhance your diagnostic skills with real-life case studies, expert insights, interactive learning activities, quizzes, and access to supplemental resources from the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Orthopaedic Video Theater, and AAOS books.
In this Diagnosis Spotlight course, you will review the intricacies and best practices for clinical evaluation and diagnosis of frequently missed wrist injuries: distal radius fractures, hook of hamate fractures, perilunate dislocations and fracture-dislocations, radiocarpal dislocations and fracture-dislocations, scaphoid fractures, and triquetral avulsion fractures. General strategies for management of these injuries are also discussed.
As an additional resource, this course includes the Revised Safer Dx Instrument, a tool developed by the Society to Improve Diagnosis in Medicine to help identify potential diagnostic errors and guide safety improvement efforts that prevent future errors. The instrument assesses various aspects of a primary care encounter for breakdowns in the diagnostic process, and its use can help standardize the detection of diagnostic errors in primary care.
Editor
David Bozenkta, MD, FAAOS
Learning Objectives
List common reasons various acute wrist injuries often are missed on initial patient presentation.
Explain the pathophysiology, etiology, and typical presentation of various acute wrist injuries.
Review best practices for the clinical evaluation and diagnosis of various acute wrist injuries.
Describe techniques to avoid diagnostic errors and the misdiagnosis of various acute wrist injuries.
Summarize treatment strategies for various acute wrist injuries.
Earn up to 30 AMA PRA Category 1 CME credits™.