Parent and Patient Satisfaction after Treatment for Supracondylar Humerus Fractures in 139 Children: No Difference between Skeletal Traction and Crossed Pin Fixation at Long-Term Followup

Table 1

Parents’ and children’s rating of experience of being treated for SCHF. VAS scale 0–10. 0 is no negative experience at all, 10 a very negative experience.

	Treatment
	POP		Skeletal traction		Closed reduction and crossed pin fixation		Open reduction and crossed pin fixation
	VAS (𝑛)	SEM	VAS (𝑛)	SEM	VAS (𝑛)	SEM	VAS (𝑛)	SEM
Parents	4.1 (32)	0.48	4.8 (24)	0.50	4.7 (42)	0.47	4.2 (6)	1.1
Children	3.4 (30)	0.43	4.4 (40)	0.37	4.4 (35)	0.46	3.5 (6)	1.4
	Fracture dislocation
	Gartland’s type 1		Gartland’s type 2		Gartland’s type 3
	VAS (𝑛)	SEM	VAS (𝑛)	SEM	VAS (𝑛)		SEM
Parents	4.3 (15)	0.75	4.2 (30)	0.46	4.6 (56)		0.38
Children	3.5 (17)	0.44	3.4 (24)	0.51	4.4 (66)		0.33
	Time from injury to followup
	Followup 0–4 years		Followup 5–7 years		Followup ≥8 years
	VAS (𝑛)	SEM	VAS (𝑛)	SEM	VAS (𝑛)		SEM
Parents	4.1 (42)	0.45	4.6 (35)	0.48	4.9 (26)		0.49
Children	3.7 (37)	0.42	4.4 (26)	0.52	4.1 (47)		0.36
	Time from injury to surgery
	< 8 hours				≥8 hours
	VAS (𝑛)		SEM		VAS (𝑛)		SEM
Parents	4.3 (47)		0.39		3.4 (15)		0.62
Children	4.3 (45)		0.41		2.7 (12)		0.60
	Gender
	Girls				Boys
	VAS (𝑛)		SEM		VAS (𝑛)		SEM
Parents	4.5 (45)		0.38		4.5 (59)		0.38
Children	4.7* (46)		0.38		3.6* (65)		0.30
	Experience of neurovascular complications
	Complications				No complications
	VAS (𝑛)		SEM		VAS (𝑛)		SEM
Parents	6.1** (13)		0.67		4.3** (91)		0.29
Children	4.9*** (18)		0.62		3.9*** (93)		0.26

* 𝑃=0.02, **𝑃=0.03, ***𝑃=0.10.
SEM = standard error of the mean.