Early Fixation for Diaphyseal Humeral Shaft Fractures in the Elderly Patients

Exclusion Criteria

• •1. Fractures with intra-articular extension
• •2. Ipsilateral upper extremity injury
• •3. Patients with vascular injury
• •4. Brachial plexus injury
• •5. Compartment syndrome
• •6. Pathological fractures
• •7. Open fractures
• •8. Periprosthetic fracture
• •9. BMI \>40
• •10. Dementia or cognitive impairment that inhibits the collection of outcome measures
• •11. Likely problems, in the judgement of the investigator, with maintaining follow-up (i.e. patients with no fixed address, not mentally competent to give consent, intellectually challenged, patients without adequate support, etc.)
• •12. Inability to provide informed consent