Damage Control Management in the Polytrauma Patient

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pape, Hans-Christoph (Editor), Peitzman, Andrew (Editor), Schwab, C. William (Editor), Giannoudis, Peter V. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Orthopedics.; Surgery.; Traumatology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Traumatic Surgery.; Emergency Medicine.; General Surgery.

Damage control surgery was developed as a management technique for severely injured patients whose immune systems are too weak to mount an adequate response to multiple extended procedures. The common goal of treating life-threatening conditions first, then treating major pelvic and extremity fractu...