Surgical timing of treating injured extremities: An evolving concept of urgency

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 94, Issue 16, 2012, Pages 1515-1524

  Crist, Brett D ^a   Ferguson, Tania ^b   Murtha, Yvonne M ^a   Lee, Mark A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6;

AMPUTATION; ANKLE BRACHIAL INDEX; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BIOFILM; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BONE NECROSIS; BRAIN PERFUSION; CELL ADHESION; CELL AGGREGATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COMPARTMENT SYNDROME; DEBRIDEMENT; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; FASCIOTOMY; FEMUR HEAD; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HEAD INJURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOST RESISTANCE; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; INFECTION RISK; INFLAMMATION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; LEGAL ASPECT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALPRACTICE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORBIDITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OPEN FRACTURE; OPEN REDUCTION; OPERATING ROOM; OPERATION DURATION; PAIN; PARALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POPLITEAL ARTERY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REOPERATION; RESUSCITATION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SHUNTING; SKIN NECROSIS; SOFT TISSUE INJURY; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TALUS; TALUS FRACTURE; THERAPY DELAY; TIBIA FRACTURE; TRAUMATOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCY; INJURY; LEG INJURY; LEGAL LIABILITY; MIDDLE AGED; RISK MANAGEMENT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; COMPARTMENT SYNDROMES; CRANIOCEREBRAL TRAUMA; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EMERGENCIES; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; LIABILITY, LEGAL; MALPRACTICE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RESUSCITATION ORDERS; RISK MANAGEMENT; TALUS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SYSTEM INJURIES;

EID: 84865607777     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.L.00414     Document Type: Review

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