Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Every 6-hour delay in debridement increased the probability of infection in patients with open femoral and ...

The treatment goal of any open fracture is to make sure that the wound is cleaned early, the fracture is stabilized, and all measures are taken to prevent a deep infection postoperatively.

Osteoporosis: A disease in which bones become thin, weak and are easily fractured. Stress Fracture: Fracture occurring in bone subject to repeated stress. Compression Fracture: Fracture caused by ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 26-year-old man who was in a motorcycle crash arrived at the ED with a Glasgow Coma Scale score of 3T.

AMERICAN orthopedic surgeons have been skeptical about the use of medullary nailing of long-bone fractures. This, I think, is fortunate, as the slow acceptance of this technic has allowed us to avoid ...

In 2023, 36,500 Connecticut residents were hospitalized after falls, and 411 - mostly older adults - died, according to state ...

1 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, General Hospital of Jinan Military Command, 250031 Jinan, China. 2 Research on 2013 stage doctoral student of TCM Orthopaedics, Shandong University of Traditional ...

Numerous options exist for the treatment of this complex injury pattern. Controversy exists as to which fracture to stabilize first and what hardware combination to use. The optimal timing of such ...

Correspondence to: Dr Hulstyn Brown University Department of Orthopaedics Division of Sports Medicine, 2 Dudley St, Providence, RI 02905, USA; hulstyncox.net Background: Stress fractures do not often ...