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TREATMENT OF OPEN FRACTURES

Clinics in Podiatric Medicine and Surgery, 1995
This article reviews current concepts in treating open fractures along with case studies to illustrate specific treatment procedures. It should be used as a basis for care and provide the fundamentals to successfully treat patients in a trauma setting. The practitioner will find this a challenging and exciting area for professional practice.
K M, Healey, K M, Danis
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Open pelvic fractures

Injury, 1990
We reviewed 32 patients with open pelvic fractures treated over a 5-year period. Eleven patients had isolated fractures of the ilium and in 21 patients pelvic ring disruption was associated with a perineal laceration. Three patients died from massive haemorrhage soon after admission and one patient from severe sepsis.
S, Govender, A, Sham, B, Singh
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Management of Open Fractures

Clinics in Podiatry, 1985
The management of open fractures is a surgical emergency. This article discusses in detail the primary goals of obtaining fracture healing, preventing infection, and restoring optimum function of the injured extremity.
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Open Pelvic Fractures

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1982
Open pelvic fracture is a devastating injury with a reported 50% mortality rate from massive bleeding and pelvic sepsis. Utilizing a graded approach to management of hemorrhage that included wound packing, anti-shock trousers, angiographic embolization, and hemipelvectomy, we controlled bleeding in all but one of the 35 patients in this series ...
J D, Richardson   +3 more
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Pediatric Open Fractures

Orthopedic Clinics of North America, 2016
Open fractures in children are rare and are typically associated with better prognoses compared with their adult equivalents. Regardless, open fractures pose a challenge because of the risk of healing complications and infection, leading to significant morbidity even in the pediatric population.
Arianna, Trionfo   +2 more
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Open Fractures and Infection

Acta chirurgiae orthopaedicae et traumatologiae Cechoslovaca, 2006
Open fractures still represent a major challenge for the treating surgeon and frequently demand a complex of soft tissue and bone procedures to achieve an undisturbed healing with adequate limb function. However, despite improvement in operative techniques and antibiotic therapy septic complications still occur in severe open fracture forms up to 50 ...
Th, Neubauer, G S, Bayer, M, Wagner
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Open Fractures of the Patella

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, 1996
We retrospectively reviewed 57 open patella fractures treated at our institution between 1976 and 1989. Forty-four patients with 47 fractures (cases) were available for follow-up a mean of 9.4 years after injury (range 2.2-15.7). High-energy vehicular trauma was the cause of injury in > 90% of cases.
M E, Torchia, D G, Lewallen
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Open fractures of the extremities

Postgraduate Medicine, 1985
Meticulous care of open wounds in open fractures is essential to prevent development of infection. Wounds should be treated by early excision and early delayed or secondary closure. Primary closure is not necessarily beneficial and can actually increase the risk of infection.
J L, Goldner, W T, Hardaker, J D, Mabrey
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OPEN FRACTURES IN CHILDREN

The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery-American Volume, 2005
Most open fractures in children result from motor-vehicle accidents (including those in which the child is an occupant of the motor vehicle or is struck by an automobile while riding a bicycle or as a pedestrian) or falls from heights. The reported demographics and injury mechanisms have varied widely from center to center.
David G, Stewart   +2 more
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Pelvic Open Fractures

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, 1980
Thirty-one of 738 patients with pelvic fracture (1970--1978) had open pelvic fractures. Eight per cent of all pelvic fractures due to pedestrian accidents and 12.5% due to motorcycle accidents were open. The mortality for open pelvic fractures was 42% compared with 10.3% for closed pelvic fractures.
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