Armed Conflict Injuries to the Extremities A Treatment Manual /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lerner, Alexander (Editor), Soudry, Michael (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Emergency medicine.; Orthopedics.; Plastic surgery.; Traumatology.; Vascular surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Traumatic Surgery.; Surgical Orthopedics.; Vascular Surgery.; Plastic Surgery.; Emergency Medicine.

Modern weapons and high-energy accidents inflict devastating damage to soft tissue and bone. As a result, both primary treatment and late limb reconstruction present a difficult surgical challenge. This book is designed to meet the continued need to re-learn the principles of treatment of complex wa...

Table of Contents:

• Organization of urgent medical aid, including mass casualty and triage
• Wound ballistics
• Damage Control
• Crush injury to limbs
• Anesthesiology in emergency patients
• Hemotransfusion in combat trauma
• Diagnostic imaging in combat trauma
• Soft tissue debridement
• Primary fracture stabilization
• Prophylaxis of wound infections after combat trauma
• Vascular trauma to limbs
• Peripheral nerve injury
• Plastic coverage of soft tissue defects
• Definitive bone reconstruction using internal fixation methods
• Definitive bone reconstruction using external fixation, including management of the severe bone loss
• Hand injuries
• Foot surgery
• Limb salvage versus amputation: The dilemma
• Amputation
• Complications: delayed unions, nonunions
• Osteomyelitis
• Pain treatment.