Keeping the Traction on in Orthopaedics

The trauma and orthopaedic speciality continues to advance as surgery becomes more accessible and safe. However, the bygone days of treatment with traction still has its merits and should remain a part of practitioner's repertoire. This will allow the practitioners to be resourceful in times of...

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Autores principales: Choudhry, Baseem, Leung, Billy, Filips, Elizabeth, Dhaliwal, Kawaljit
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32983726
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10034
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description The trauma and orthopaedic speciality continues to advance as surgery becomes more accessible and safe. However, the bygone days of treatment with traction still has its merits and should remain a part of practitioner's repertoire. This will allow the practitioners to be resourceful in times of unexpected scenarios. We aim to write this article to describe indications, applications of various forms of traction, and their relevant complications. 
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spelling pubmed-75157922020-09-26 Keeping the Traction on in Orthopaedics Choudhry, Baseem Leung, Billy Filips, Elizabeth Dhaliwal, Kawaljit Cureus Emergency Medicine The trauma and orthopaedic speciality continues to advance as surgery becomes more accessible and safe. However, the bygone days of treatment with traction still has its merits and should remain a part of practitioner's repertoire. This will allow the practitioners to be resourceful in times of unexpected scenarios. We aim to write this article to describe indications, applications of various forms of traction, and their relevant complications.  Cureus 2020-08-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7515792/ /pubmed/32983726 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.10034 Text en Copyright © 2020, Choudhry et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title_full Keeping the Traction on in Orthopaedics
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7515792/
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