TY - JOUR T1 - Immobilisation of suspected scaphoid fractures JF - Journal of Accident & Emergency Medicine JO - Arch Emerg Med SP - 127 LP - 128 DO - 10.1136/emj.17.2.127 VL - 17 IS - 2 AU - Kathryn Gow AU - Rob Williams Y1 - 2000/03/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/17/2/127.abstract N2 - Report by Kathryn Gow, Medical Student Search checked by Rob Williams, Clinical Fellow A 25 year old man attends the emergency department with a one day old wrist injury caused by falling onto his outstretched hand. He is tender in his anatomical snuff box and also on longitudinal thumb compression, but he is in very little pain on normal everyday movements. You send him for a scaphoid series of x rays … ER -