Early Total Care versus Damage Control: Current Concepts in the Orthopedic Care of Polytrauma Patients

The management of the polytraumatized orthopedic patient remains a challenging issue. In recent years many efforts have been made to develop rescue techniques and to promote guidelines for the management of these patients. Currently controversies persist between two orthopedic approaches: the Early...

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Autor principal: Nicola, Ratto
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4045290/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24959356
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/329452
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description The management of the polytraumatized orthopedic patient remains a challenging issue. In recent years many efforts have been made to develop rescue techniques and to promote guidelines for the management of these patients. Currently controversies persist between two orthopedic approaches: the Early Total Care and the Damage Control Orthopedics. An overview of the current literature on the orthopedic management of polytrauma patient is provided. Subsequently, femoral shaft fractures, representing extremely common lesions, and pelvic ring injuries, that are associated with a high mortality rate, are analyzed in detail.
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spelling pubmed-40452902014-06-23 Early Total Care versus Damage Control: Current Concepts in the Orthopedic Care of Polytrauma Patients Nicola, Ratto ISRN Orthop Review Article The management of the polytraumatized orthopedic patient remains a challenging issue. In recent years many efforts have been made to develop rescue techniques and to promote guidelines for the management of these patients. Currently controversies persist between two orthopedic approaches: the Early Total Care and the Damage Control Orthopedics. An overview of the current literature on the orthopedic management of polytrauma patient is provided. Subsequently, femoral shaft fractures, representing extremely common lesions, and pelvic ring injuries, that are associated with a high mortality rate, are analyzed in detail. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013-03-21 /pmc/articles/PMC4045290/ /pubmed/24959356 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/329452 Text en Copyright © 2013 Ratto Nicola. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4045290/
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