Plaster of Paris–Short History of Casting and Injured Limb Immobilzation

Various materials have been used since ancient times to help immobilise fractures. In this review, we discuss the history and developments of these materials as well as plaster of Paris. There has been a recent trend away from non-operative management of fractures, and skills in the use of plaster o...

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Autores principales: Szostakowski, B., Smitham, P., Khan, W.S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Bentham Open 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5420179/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28567158
http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874325001711010291
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description Various materials have been used since ancient times to help immobilise fractures. In this review, we discuss the history and developments of these materials as well as plaster of Paris. There has been a recent trend away from non-operative management of fractures, and skills in the use of plaster of Paris are declining. For the successful treatment of patients, it is important to appreciate how plaster works, how it should be used, and what can go wrong. In this review, we also discuss principles of applications and complications of plaster of Paris.
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spelling pubmed-54201792017-05-31 Plaster of Paris–Short History of Casting and Injured Limb Immobilzation Szostakowski, B. Smitham, P. Khan, W.S. Open Orthop J Article Various materials have been used since ancient times to help immobilise fractures. In this review, we discuss the history and developments of these materials as well as plaster of Paris. There has been a recent trend away from non-operative management of fractures, and skills in the use of plaster of Paris are declining. For the successful treatment of patients, it is important to appreciate how plaster works, how it should be used, and what can go wrong. In this review, we also discuss principles of applications and complications of plaster of Paris. Bentham Open 2017-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC5420179/ /pubmed/28567158 http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1874325001711010291 Text en © 2017 Szostakowski et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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