An accessory muscle as the possible cause of ulnar nerve compression proximal to the cubital canal: a case report
An accessory muscle as the possible cause of ulnar nerve compression proximal to the cubital canal: a case report
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副肌可能是肘管近端尺神经受压的原因:病例报告
DOI:
10.1177/17531934211022162
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发表时间:
2021
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通讯作者:
G. Bourke
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作者:
H. Wright;Miriam Fahmy;G. Bourke
anaesthetic, either in the operating theatre or in the clinic. Ten patients (7%) required surgical procedures under general anaesthetic, almost all of these injuries were tendon or nerve lacerations. Hand injuries cause notable morbidity and disability to patients. This disproportionately impacts the younger, working population. Furthermore, there are healthcare associated costs, with the cost of each hand injury to the National Health Service ranging from £140 to £5300 (NHS Improvement and NHS England, 2020). We found that nearly one-third of hand injuries were preventable. This highlights the need to develop strategies to reduce these injuries. Prevention could include educational, legislative and technological approaches, either singularly or in combination. The Cochrane Reviews of injury prevention provide frameworks. For example, the review on injury prevention in agriculture (Rautiainen et al., 2008) uses ‘Three E’s of Safety’: engineering or technology changes to the equipment used, such as tool design; education and behaviour changes, such as training programmes, public safety posters and warning labels; and enforcement or legislative changes, such as government regulation of machinery. A similarly combined prevention approach could be applied to door and window injuries and for food preparation. This research, and the need for prevention strategies, became even more relevant in the context of the self-isolation and lockdown related to the COVID-19 pandemic, which caused individuals to spend more time at home where many preventable injuries occur. In this context, the recent British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) (2020) media campaign to raise awareness of preventable hand injuries is an educational intervention that is both necessary and timely. To ensure that behaviour change is sustained, there is a need for ongoing messaging, together with the development and evaluation of multi-faceted interventions. Further research on the frequency, causes and impact of preventable hand injuries is needed to underpin these interventions and health promotion activities and monitor their impacts. This pilot study provides data showing that a larger national study is necessary and feasible with the dual aims of developing a sharp definition of the term preventable hand injury and providing a large dataset to facilitate behavioural change and inform policy and practice.