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Orthopaedic traumatology: fundamental principles and current controversies for the acute care surgeon
Shad K Pharaon, Shawn Schoch, Lucas Marchand, Amer Mirza, John Mayberry
DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2017-000117 Published 8 January 2018
Shad K Pharaon
1
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center, Vancouver, Washington, USA
Shawn Schoch
2
Department of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
Lucas Marchand
3
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Amer Mirza
4
Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery, Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, Portland, Oregon, USA
John Mayberry
5
Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, Boise, Idaho, USA
6
Department of Surgery, WWAMI Regional Medical Education, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, USA

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Orthopaedic traumatology: fundamental principles and current controversies for the acute care surgeon
Shad K Pharaon, Shawn Schoch, Lucas Marchand, Amer Mirza, John Mayberry
Trauma Surg Acute Care Open Jan 2018, 3 (1) e000117; DOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2017-000117
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- Abstract
- Introduction
- Bone
- Periosteum
- Cartilage
- Fractures
- Healing phases
- Primary versus secondary healing
- Factors negatively affecting healing
- Initial management
- Open fractures
- Controversy: damage control orthopedics versus early appropriate care
- Minimally invasive osteosynthesis
- Fracture non-unions
- Absorbable prostheses
- Orthobiologics
- Extremity compartment syndrome
- Rib fracture fixation: an intersection of acute care surgery and orthopaedic traumatology
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