Practicals · Traumatology and Surgery · Procedural skills — Extremities
Femoral skeletal traction application
- Type
- Procedure
- Curriculum level
- Essential (NMC)
- Also called
- distal femoral traction pin
Videos and resources
- VideoHow to Place a Femoral Pin - Skeletal Traction Animation1:54
- VideoFemoral Skeletal Traction Pin Placement6:41
- +66 more links
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Operative note template
How to write the operative note in the case sheet: blank template, worked example and printable PDF (free).
Where the curriculum asks for it
“Applying femoral/tibial traction” ( NMC curriculum, page 9)