Dislocation of the elbow
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dislocation of the elbow · dislocation of the elbow-joint · displaced elbow · luxated elbow
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De articulis
Displacement of the elbow joint in various directions and its recognition and reduction.
Dislocations at the elbow give rise to the most serious consequences, such as fevers, pain, nausea, vomitings of pure bile, and more especially when the humerus is displaced backward from pressure on the nerve, which occasions numbness;
When the elbow-joint is displaced or dislocated to the side or outward, while its sharp point (olecranon?
The position for the treatment consists in keeping the hand a little higher than the elbow, and the arm at the sides;
Vectiarius
Displacement of the bones at the elbow joint, described with directional variants and multiple reduction techniques.
In complete dislocations to either side, make extension while the arm is in the position it is put in to be bandaged for a fracture, for thus the rounded part of the elbow will not form an obstacle to it.
In dislocation at the elbow, whether outward or inward, extension is to be made with the fore-arm at right angles to the arm;
The elbow, when luxated, induces the most serious consequences, fevers, pain, nausea, vomiting of pure bile;