ArticleWorld journal of emergency surgery : WJES2009
ATLS(R) and damage control in spine trauma.
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- Cervical Spine Trauma in East Africa: Presentation, Treatment, and Mortality.International journal of spine surgery · 2021Article
- Lag-Screw Osteosynthesis in Thoracolumbar Pincer Fractures.Global spine journal · 2021Article
- Timing of intervention for spinal injury in patients with polytrauma.Journal of clinical orthopaedics and trauma · 2021Article
- Damage control orthopaedics: State of the art.World journal of orthopedics · 2019Article
- Percutaneous extrapedicular vertebroplasty with expandable intravertebral implant in compression vertebral body fracture in pediatric patient-technical note.Child's nervous system : ChNS : official journal of the International Society for Pediatric Neurosurgery · 2016Article
- Non-operative vs. percutaneous stabilization in Magerl's A1 or A2 thoracolumbar spine fracture in adults: is it really advantageous for a good alignment of the spine? Preliminary data from a prospective study.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2014Article
- Percutaneous pedicle screw for unstable spine fractures in polytraumatized patients: A report of two cases.Indian journal of orthopaedics · 2012Article
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Abstract
Substantial inflammatory disturbances following major trauma have been found throughout the posttraumatic course of polytraumatized patients, which was confirmed in experimental models of trauma and in vitro settings. As a consequence, the principle of damage control surgery (DCS) has developed over the last two decades and has been successfully introduced in the treatment of severely injured patients. The aim of damage control surgery and orthopaedics (DCO) is to limit additional iatrogenic trauma in the vulnerable phase following major injury. Considering traumatic brain and acute lung injury, implants for quick stabilization like external fixators as well as decided surgical approaches with minimized potential for additional surgery-related impairment of the patient's immunologic state have been developed and used widely. It is obvious, that a similar approach should be undertaken in the case of spinal trauma in the polytraumatized patient. Yet, few data on damage control spine surgery are published to so far, controlled trials are missing and spinal injury is addressed only secondarily in the broadly used ATLS(R) polytrauma algorithm. This article reviews the literature on spine trauma assessment and treatment in the polytrauma setting, gives hints on how to assess the spine trauma patient regarding to the ATLS(R) protocol and recommendations on therapeutic strategies in spinal injury in the polytraumatized patient.
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