Optimal timing of fracture fixation: Have we learned anything in the past 20 years?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 253-260

  Scalea, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; INTERLEUKIN 6;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; BRAIN DECOMPRESSION; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; EARLY INTERVENTION; FAT EMBOLISM; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE MONITORING; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; INTUBATION; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; OPEN FRACTURE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLATE FIXATION; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; SEDATION; THORAX INJURY; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; TRAUMATOLOGY; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; FRACTURE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; TIME; TRACTION THERAPY;

FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TIME FACTORS; TRACTION; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 67649233455     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31817fa475     Document Type: Review

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