Discussion:
- Trauma Work Up:
- Assessment of Perfusion: Damage Control Orthopaedics
- Preparation for Surgery
- fat embolism syndrome
- references:
- Early unreamed intramedullary nailing of femoral fractures is safe in patients with severe thoracic trauma.
- Thoracic trauma and early intramedullary nailing of femur fractures: are we doing harm?
- Effects of changing strategies of fracture fixation on immunologic changes and systemic complications after multiple trauma: Damage control orthopedic surgery.
- Impact of the method of initial stabilization for femoral shaft fractures in patients with multiple injuries at risk for complications (borderline patients).
- Early versus Delayed Stabilization of Femoral Fractures. A Prospective Randomized Study.
- Blunt multiple trauma (ISS 36), femur traction, and the pulmonary failure-septic state.
- Immediate Nailing of Open Fractures of the Femoral Shaft.
- Primary intramedullary femur fixation in multiple trauma patients with associated lung contusion--a cause of posttraumatic ARDS?
- Pulmonary damage after intramedullary femoral nailing in traumatized sheep--is there an effect from different nailing methods?
- Prediction of pulmonary morbidity and mortality in patients with femur fracture
- Timing of femur fracture fixation: effect on outcome in patients with thoracic and head injuries
- Early Appropriate Care: Definitive Stabilization of Femoral Fractures Within 24 Hours of Injury Is Safe in Most Patients With Multiple Injuries
- Skeletal traction versus external fixation in the initial temporization of femoral shaft fractures in severely injured patients
- Safety and efficacy of damage control external fixation vs early definitive stabilization for femoral shaft fractures in the multiple-injured patient.
- Resuscitation before stabilization of femoral fractures limits ARDS in patients with multiple traumatic injuries despite low use of damage control orthopedics
