Episode six of the Fracture Season of PEM Currents: The Pediatric Emergency Medicine Podcast focuses on proximal, shaft and distal femur fractures including SCFE. Learn about which kids get a hip spica and how to manage acute femur fractures.

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References

Bassett A et al. Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis (SCFE). Ortho Bullets. https://www.orthobullets.com/pediatrics/4040/slipped-capital-femoral-epiphysis-scfe. Updated 1/14/2019. Accessed 9/12/2019

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Beaty JH, et al. Fractures about the knee in children. J Bone Joint Surg Am 1994; 76:1870.

Hunter JB. Femoral shaft fractures in children. Injury 2005; 36 Suppl 1:A86.

Rewers A. Childhood femur fractures, associated injuries, and sociodemographic risk factors: a population-based study. Pediatrics. 2005;115(5):e543.