Open AccessIs the early percutaneous spine total care to treat the polytrauma patient a good way?
Author(s) -
Gabriele Falzarano,
Antonio Medici,
Giuseppe Pica,
Predrag Grubor,
Milan Grubor,
Francesco Vitaliano Muziì,
Mirza Biščević,
Arianna Falzarano,
Luigi Meccariello
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of acute disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2589-5516
pISSN - 2221-6189
DOI - 10.1016/s2221-6189(14)60089-5
Subject(s) - medicine , polytrauma , orthopedic surgery , percutaneous , surgery , cervical spine , external fixation , external fixator
The “ideal“ timing and modality of fracture fixation for unstable thoracolumbar spine fractures in multiply injured patients remains controversial. The concept of “damage control orthopedics” is expressed. We presented a case report of a 27 years' old male who sustained a multilevel spine fractures associated a floating knee (Fraser's Type A), ulna fracture and carpal scaphoid fracture in July 2014 after car accident (very high energy trauma). All these fractures were treated in early total care. We reported a case control to discuss about the early spinal total care associated at orthopedic total care in patients with multiple trauma