FLOATING KNEE INJURY

FLOATING KNEE INJURY - Floating knee is a flail knee joint resulting from fractures of the shafts or adjacent metaphyses of the femur and ipsilateral tibia. Floating knee injuries are always due to high energy trauma. The force required to fracture two of the strongest bones in the body is immense. Not surprisingly, these injuries are associated with other injuries - bony and soft tissue. These patients are usually haemodynamically unstable and need close monitoring and resuscitation during the initial period of following injury.