Lum Vincent W M, Poh Juliana
Changi General Hospital, Department of Accident & Emergency, Singapore, Singapore.
Singapore General Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Bukit Merah, Singapore.
Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med. 2017 Oct 18;1(4):380-383. doi: 10.5811/cpcem.2017.9.35834. eCollection 2017 Nov.
We report a case of a 19-year-old male who presented to the emergency department with refractory atraumatic temporomandibular joint dislocation. Multiple attempts at reduction by emergency physicians before and after sedation were unsuccessful. The dislocation was eventually reduced using the wrist pivot technique. This case highlights the need to consider alternative methods of temporomandibular joint reduction, particularly in cases refractory to reduction despite the use of sedation.
我们报告一例19岁男性病例,该患者因难治性非创伤性颞下颌关节脱位就诊于急诊科。急诊医生在镇静前后多次尝试复位均未成功。最终采用腕部支点技术成功复位。该病例强调了需要考虑颞下颌关节复位的替代方法,尤其是在尽管使用了镇静但仍难以复位的病例中。