Broken bones and orthopedist groans: Can an acute care surgeon fix both?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 673-678

  Endorf, Frederick W ^a   Esposito, Thomas J ^a   Reed II, R Lawrence ^a   Luchette, Fred A ^a   Gamelli, Richard L ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute care surgery; Fracture management; National Trauma Data Bank; Orthopedic surgery; Orthopedic trauma; Trauma surgery

Indexed keywords

ACETABULUM FRACTURE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; JOINT DISLOCATION; LEG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPEN FRACTURE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT SELECTION; PELVIS FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FRACTURE; WOUND IRRIGATION;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; PREVALENCE; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 40549141078     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31816533e8     Document Type: Article

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