RT Book, Section
A1 Aziz, Farhad
A1 Doty, Christopher I.
A2 Stone, C. Keith
A2 Humphries, Roger L.
SR Print(0)
ID 1176289001
T1 Orthopedic Emergencies
T2 CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment: Emergency Medicine, 8e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071840613
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1176289001
RD 2024/04/18
AB Patients  with  orthopedic  injuries  and  musculoskeletal  disorders  constitute  a  large  portion  of  patients  presenting  to  the  emergency  department  (ED).  All  trauma  patients  should  be  managed  initially  in  the  same  manner,  with  similar  guiding  principles  of  trauma  care  regardless  of  their  underlying  injuries.  Orthopedic  injuries  may  be  gruesome,  but  they  should  not  draw  attention  away  from  more  critical  elements  of  initial  patient  assessment  and  treatment.  The  emergency  physician  must  assess  the  patient  and  manage  injuries  based  on  the  immediate  threat  to  survival,  evaluating  each  trauma  patient  with  the  primary  survey,  which  consists  of  assessing  the  airway,  breathing,  circulation,  disability,  and  exposure  (ABCDEs)  (Table  28–1).