PLASTER OF PARIS (POP): Everything you need to know about POP

Medical Licentiate Emerson

1. 7: PLASTER OF PARIS (POP)

2. (a) What is it? Plaster of Paris cast (b) What is it made up of? Hydrated calcium sulphate (gypsum) (c) Where else is it used? Fiber glass

3. Indications for POP Fractures Dislocations Correction of limb deformity e.g. congenital malformation Prevention of pathological #s in osteomyelitis

4. Complication of POP I. Early Compartment syndrome-Burns Allergy to POP II. Late Muscle disuse atrophy -Joint stiffness (Ankylosing) Nerve compression Mal-union Volkmann‘s contracture