Floating Shoulder Injuries, What Parameters are Important and their Treatment Options

Scapular fractures are only 1% of all the fractures [2]. Glenoid neck fractures are 18-33% of the scapular fractures and only 50% of them have a double SSSC disruption. A glenoid neck and clavicle fractures is the most common type of floating shoulder injury pattern [2]. Open injuries are present in 9% of the FS cases [3]. The FS is often present in polytrauma patients (AIS of more than two in two or more corporal regions) [7], in such cases the FS injury can be easily overlooked [2], being belatedly diagnosed [1,2]. Associated injuries are present in 80-90% of the FS cases. The most common injuries are: Head Trauma (30%) (CET) [2,3,8] Thoracic trauma (30%) and ipsilateral chest-wall injury (25%) followed by cervical spine fractures 12% [2,9].