Severe Injuries to the Limbs Staged Treatment /

• Main Authors: Lerner, Alexander (Author), Reis, Daniel (Author), Soudry, Michael (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2007.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Orthopedics.; Rehabilitation.; Plastic surgery.; Traumatology.; Vascular surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Surgical Orthopedics.; Emergency Medicine.; Traumatic Surgery.; Plastic Surgery.; Vascular Surgery.

Modern weapons and high-energy accidents inflict devastating damage to soft tissue and bone. The gold standard for stabilizing high-energy fractures is immediate external fixation followed by thorough debridement of soft tissues and dead bone and irrigation, since these injuries are always grossly c...