Do patients with multiple system injury benefit from early fixation of unstable axial fractures? the effects of timing of surgery on initial hospital course

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 405-412

  Vallier, Heather A ^a   Super, Dennis M ^b   Moore, Timothy A ^a   Wilber, John H ^a  

^a METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

damage control; early fixation; femur fracture; pelvis fracture; spine fracture

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ACETABULUM FRACTURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DEATH; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INJURY SEVERITY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LUMBAR SPINE FRACTURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PELVIS FRACTURE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SPINE FRACTURE; THERAPY DELAY; THORACIC SPINE FRACTURE; THORAX INJURY; TIME; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; JOINT INSTABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE TRAUMA; OHIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WAITING LISTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84880165730     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: 15312291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0b013e3182820eba     Document Type: Article

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