The Mangled Extremity

Current Problems in Surgery

Volumn 46, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 851-926

  Rush Jr , Robert M ^a   Beekley, Alec C ^a   Puttler, Eric G ^b   Kjorstad, Randy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BICARBONATE; HEPARIN; INDOMETACIN; MANNITOL; MELOXICAM;

ARTERY INJURY; ARTICLE; BATTLE INJURY; BLEEDING; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FASCIOTOMY; FRACTURE FIXATION; HETEROTOPIC OSSIFICATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; LIMB AMPUTATION; LIMB FRACTURE; LIMB INJURY; LIMB ISCHEMIA; LIMB REPLANTATION; MILITARY SERVICE; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; REHABILITATION CARE; REPERFUSION INJURY; RESUSCITATION; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SKIN FLAP; SKIN GRAFT; SURGICAL THROMBECTOMY; TOURNIQUET; TREATMENT PLANNING; VEIN INJURY; WOUND CARE; WOUND DRESSING;

AMPUTATION; ARM INJURIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; LIMB SALVAGE; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 70349801715     PISSN: 00113840     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/j.cpsurg.2009.05.003     Document Type: Article

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