ORIF Surgery.
Date: June 29, 2021
Medium: Pen & ink, Adobe photoshop and Illustrator
Audience: Orthopedic surgical residents
Purpose: To create a 3-4 page instructional guide of an orthopedic surgical procedure intended to assist orthopedic surgical residents in learning the technique. I chose to illustrate the open reduction internal fixation of a transverse radial fracture.
DEVELOPMENT 1: OR SURGICAL SKETCHES
Rough surgical sketches of the procedure were made directly in the OR during observation of the surgery.
DEVELOPMENT 2: FIRST DRAFT
I created a rough layout of how my images would be laid out relative to each other and to the text. The goal was to break down the procedure into sections (in this case I broke it down into the dissection and the repair) and choose aspects of the procedure that may benefit the reader with a visual.
DEVELOPMENT 3: SECOND DRAFT
In this stage, the key focus was to ensure all the anatomy was correct and that important structures were retracted and not incised. The dissection images were drawn from a surgeons POV and the images of screw placement (page 3) were schematic for the audience to understand the mechanics of eccentric and neutral screw placement.
DEVELOPMENT 4: RENDERING
The final draft was rendered in grayscale in Adobe photoshop for realism and anatomical accuracy.
