To the Editor: We read with interest the recently published article titled "The Captain Morgan Technique for the Reduction of the Dislocated Hip" by Hendey and Avila. We agree with the utility, success, and overall safety of this technique. However,we had a complication when reducing a hip in an elderly wheelchair-bound patient and observed that the authors did not comment that in performing the reduction, care must be given to not use the "Captain's knee" as a fulcrum to reduce the hip.
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