RT Book, Section
A1 Coleman, Royce
A1 Reiland, Alison
A2 Stone, C. Keith
A2 Humphries, Roger L.
SR Print(0)
ID 55750959
T1 Chapter 28. Orthopedic Emergencies
T2 CURRENT Diagnosis & Treatment Emergency Medicine, 7e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-0-07-170107-5
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=55750959
RD 2024/04/18
AB Patients  with  orthopedic  injuries  and  musculoskeletal  disorders  constitute  a  large  portion  of  patients  presenting  to  the  Emergency  Department.  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  dramatic,  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  and  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).