Comparative Study of Treatment in Open Tibia Fracture Treated with Jugdesh- Awais Solid Tibial Nail (JA-STN) and AO External Fixator

Introduction: The tibia is most commonly fractured long bone in the body, as it has poor soft tissue coverage, medial surface is completely subcutaneous. The optimum method for skeletal stabilization of open fractures of the tibial shaft remains controversial. In recent years, unreamed intramedullary nailing has become an increasing attractive treatment method for tibial fractures. Due to high price of imported unreamed tibial nail (UTN), therefore we first designed the nail according to the measurement of our tibia, and then manufactured the solid UTN nail from 316L steel and inserting instrument from stainless steel. Two average size i.e. 350 mm and 330 mm in length and 9 mm diameter after analyzing the measurements of tibia in 20-40 years old male population of tibia of 50 healthy males by using CT scan. The sizes of long bones are slightly different in Western and Asian societies.